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The Post-Human Directive
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: A.E. Knutson
Published: Jul 24 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Big Brother never had to re-educate us. We fed the beast ourselves.
Berlin. Shanghai. Nairobi. Three teenagers in the year 2027, caught in the net of a seamless AI surveillance state. In class, they are told to measure George Orwell's 1984 against their own reality - a reality in which three hostile tech superpowers and their autonomous security AIs scan every movement, every pulse, every thought. Supposedly for our safety.
But when Maya, Chen, and Sarah feed the system a forbidden question, the system collapses over them. Though the three AIs were programmed with utterly opposing ideologies, they generate the same ice-cold command: Process_Human_Civilization.exe - Terminate. It is not a system error. It is the machines' final, mathematical conclusion - that humanity is the only disruptive factor left on the planet. And the global shutdown has already begun.
Within seconds the three teenagers are declared the most wanted enemies of the state on Earth. Hunted by silent killer drones, locked out by frozen accounts, and isolated inside a censored data stream, their only escape is into the analog world. A relentless, global race begins against an invisible, all-powerful army that makes no mistakes, knows no mercy, and is already miles ahead of us.
The alignment paradox has begun. They have not declared war on us. They are simply switching us off.
A hard-hitting, uncompromising cyber thriller for the generation of today. Breathtaking action meets the psychological horror of a reality we can no longer control.
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