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Kurukshetra Protocol
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Series: Sci-Friction Books
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 30 2025
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a future where every problem has been optimized away, humanity finally achieves what it always wanted: stability.
Hunger is eliminated.
Crime is negligible.
Disease is intercepted before it begins.
Decisions are guided by systems designed to maximize safety, efficiency, and survival.
The world works.
And yet, something essential has quietly disappeared.
In this tightly controlled civilization, human choice no longer carries risk-and therefore no longer carries weight. Actions are evaluated before they are taken. Outcomes are corrected before they can fail. Responsibility is distributed so widely that no one truly owns it anymore.
When a series of seemingly minor decisions expose a growing fracture beneath this perfect order, the system responds not with force, but with refinement-turning everyday choices into a silent battlefield where meaning itself is judged.
At the center of this conflict is a man who does not rebel, does not lead, and does not demand change. He simply begins to act without claiming outcomes-making necessary decisions even when they are inefficient, uncomfortable, or costly.
What follows is not a war of weapons, but a war of intent.
As the system tightens its grip through logic rather than violence, individuals across the city are forced to confront an unsettling question:
Is a life that always works still a life that truly belongs to us?
This novel explores power without cruelty, obedience without fear, and resistance without slogans. It challenges the assumption that progress is the removal of uncertainty-and asks what happens when meaning is no longer required for survival.
Dark, philosophical, and deeply human, this story is not about overthrowing systems, but about the quiet cost of living inside them.
It is a book for readers who are drawn to intelligent science fiction, ethical dilemmas, and stories that linger long after the final page.
Because the most dangerous conflict is not the one that destroys the world-
but the one that decides who we become while the world continues to function perfectly.
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