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Silent Dominion: Aliens and AI Datacenters
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A subterranean bunker. A Mandela Effect. And a signal that shouldn't exist.
Deep in the Appalachian mountains, Kirk and Duncan run Over Redacted, a low-budget conspiracy podcast broadcasted from a leaking, concrete basement. Kirk is a hyper-caffeinated engine of relentless pattern-recognition; Duncan is his weary, agoraphobic co-host, desperate to keep their terrifyingly weird world as boring and predictable as possible.
But when a massive electrical surge hits the valley, their system doesn't just flicker-it begins to loop. A rhythmic, high-frequency whisper starts bleeding through unpowered studio monitors, and a grainy security feed displays a live loop of their own empty studio.
Across the valley, a shadowy developmental authority is systematically flaying the mountains to construct a gargantuan, sixty-two-square-mile data center. The local creeks are running dry, the water table is charged with lithium, and the local townspeople are slipping into a glassy-eyed, unblinking compliance.
Armed with an encrypted solid-state drive containing a leaks database, Kirk and Duncan are forced to leave their basement to hunt for the boundary of their rendering reality. From glitched suburban cul-de-sacs to an ancient, submerged limestone ziggurat beneath a flooded quarry, they must race to broadcast the truth before the global grid executes a system-wide garbage collection protocol.
Praise for Silent Dominion:
- Taut & Atmospheric: A brilliant blend of sensory, claustrophobic body horror and high-tech corporate paranoia.
- Sharp Satirical Edge: Darkly comedic and cuttingly prescient about platform culture, deepfakes, and administrative control.
- A Mind-Bending Journey: Perfect for fans of cosmic dread, technothrillers, and paranoiac fiction.
If you enjoy the cosmic dread of Nick Cutter, the media-critique horror of Paul Tremblay, or the mind-bending narrative puzzles of modern literary slipstream, Silent Dominion will keep you up late-watching the sky, and checking your drywall.
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