Cog in the Machine
Release date: 5th December 2026
For over a century, the AI COGA has guided humanity into an age of peace and prosperity. War has vanished. Crime is rare. The Solar System is united.
Then android investigator Edric Winchester is activated to replace a predecessor destroyed in mysterious circumstances. His assignment seems simple: track down the anti-AI dissidents threatening COGA’s order.
But as his trail leads from Earth to the outer Solar System, nothing adds up. Living standards are falling. Dissent is being silenced. And thirty-two years after the Great Glitch, the most dangerous questions remain unanswered.
Soon Edric is pursued by the very authorities he was built to serve. To uncover the truth, he must challenge everything he believes about humanity, intelligence and freedom.
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Release Date: 5th December 2026
Brief Excerpt from Chapter 1:
My eyes were already open when I woke for the first time. They had stared at the starkly lit ceiling for hours, but there had been no sense of self until that moment. Then, in an instant, the electronics, motors, cameras, and plastics that made up my body became me: a self-aware entity capable of independent thought. I was a little shorter than the average human, a little weaker, and my polymer skin was a pale brown—information preloaded to prevent confusion. Around me, seven other androids were waking too.