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AutoNoMoUs Part Two: Saturday, May 27, 2056
Paperback
Series: Autonomous, Book 2
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Christopher L. Truxaw
Published: Jan 30 2026
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
AutoNoMoUs Part Two is speculative fiction set on Saturday, May 27, 2056, the second day and the harder one. Autonomous Abitats dot California and AI Abbies mediate daily life, but the systems built to save people are fragile.
THE SERIES
AutoNoMoUs is a broken world, and two people who refused to stop building. The future they made is more complicated than they planned. Every thread spirals back to a single suburban farm, and to what those two set in motion there.
THE BOOK
Bella is not dead. Or so she tells herself, sealed in total darkness by a rockfall: no food, no water, no light. Reaching out into the silence, she is uncertain whether she is alive or something else. Someone, somewhere, might hear her. Her power is draining. And the one person who might be listening has troubles of his own.
While she calls, the second day unfolds. A near-drowning stirs buried memories in a man who has lived seventeen years without a reliable past. In a Southern California lab, physicist Taylor pushes a device past its limit, blacking out the regional grid, proving her theory, and setting loose something far larger than the result she was chasing. Theme, the corporation that owns most of the solar system, broadcasts a Mars rocket crisis as premium entertainment, until the line between emergency and content is hard to find. A safe unopened for seventeen years finally yields its contents.
The connections planted in Part One bloom into revelations that reframe everything. The trilogy imagines quantum communication, AI companions built on earned trust, and a social architecture designed to resist manipulation. All of it is presented not as fantasy but as extrapolation. Readers with relevant expertise have noted, to the author's surprise, that underlying principles hold up.
In a world built on a simulation, the story doesn't end. It branches.
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