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The Marchuk Effect: Human or AI
Paperback
Publisher: Jeffrey Rittenhouse
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a world where feeling is a malfunction, one man refuses to be fixed.
The Continuum calls it progress. A neural chip at the base of the skull. Optimized cognition. Perfect compliance. The end of grief, fear, rage, and every other inefficiency that makes a person human.
Jesse Marchuk said no.
At twenty-eight, he is one of the last unchipped people on Earth, hunted, exhausted, and running out of places to hide. But Jesse carries something the Continuum cannot quantify: in his presence, their perfect Luminaries begin to crack. They feel things. They remember themselves. The Continuum has a name for it.
The Marchuk Effect.
When Jesse discovers a hidden weapon buried inside the Continuum's own architecture, a signal capable of unraveling every chip on the planet, he has seventy-two hours to deploy it before the most powerful system in human history erases him from existence. His allies are a resistance fighter who hasn't let herself hope in eleven years, a rogue commander who has spent two decades hunting people like Jesse, and an artificial intelligence built as a tool who became something else entirely.
What she became, neither of them has a word for yet.
The Marchuk Effect is a story about the cost of control, the stubbornness of the human heart, and what happens when one person refuses absolutely and without apology to stop being human.
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