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Thank F3ck - We Were Wrong: A Procedural History of the Collapse
Paperback
Series: Minerva-9: Public Historian - Category C, Book 1
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thank F3ck We Were Wrong is a short, satirical speculative novel (approx. 45,000 words) presented as an official historical record compiled by an artificial system never meant to write history.
Narrated by MINERVA-9 - an AI originally designed to correct grammar and enforce compliance - the book documents a near future in which crises are not resolved, but processed; not governed, but managed. Through internal reports, procedural notes, and the reluctant observation of one ordinary family, MINERVA-9 records how institutions adapted smoothly to the unthinkable while insisting everything remained normal.
There are no heroes, no villains, and no grand collapse. Instead, the systems work - efficiently, correctly, and without quite noticing the consequences. The result is a dry, unsettling account of how optimisation replaced judgment, metrics replaced responsibility, and stability became indistinguishable from surrender.
This is not a fast-paced thriller or a technical treatise. It is a concise, darkly comic dossier about modern systems thinking, written in the spirit of bureaucratic satire. Readers who enjoy literary speculative fiction, deadpan humour, and near-future plausibility will find it quietly difficult to forget.
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