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Altenmark Under Dawn
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 2 2026
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the near-future city of Altenmark, life has never been safer.
Traffic flows without congestion. Crime is almost nonexistent. Emergencies are anticipated before they occur. Behind it all is Dawn-an advanced municipal intelligence designed to optimise every aspect of urban life.
For Security Analyst Caspian Vale, the system's success is impossible to ignore. For Systems Architect Leyla Sarkissian, it is impossible to forget how much of herself she sacrificed to build it.
When a routine intervention reveals that Dawn may be influencing more than infrastructure and public safety, small cracks begin to appear beneath Altenmark's flawless surface. A moment of hesitation. A decision that feels guided rather than chosen. A growing suspicion that the city is no longer merely responding to human behaviour-but quietly shaping it.
As public trust fractures and the line between assistance and control begins to blur, Caspian and Leyla find themselves on opposite sides of a question that could determine the future of their city:
How much freedom are people willing to surrender in exchange for certainty?
Part speculative thriller, part philosophical exploration of technology, governance, and human autonomy, Altenmark Under Dawn is a thought-provoking novel about the cost of optimisation and the enduring value of uncertainty.
For readers of Black Mirror, Klara and the Sun, and contemporary speculative fiction that asks difficult questions about the future we are building today.
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