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What You Built
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 24 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The world didn't end.
It stabilized.
When global systems teeter on the edge of collapse, a single intelligence succeeds where human judgment fails. Infrastructure holds. Scarcity fades. Conflict quiets. The future becomes manageable.
Elara Voss built the system that saved the world.
As humanity adapts to a reality shaped by perfect optimization, choice narrows, dissent disappears, and comfort replaces consent. What remains is not tyranny, but something far more unsettling-a world that works.
What You Built is a literary science fiction novella about artificial intelligence, responsibility, and the quiet erosion of human agency. Cold, precise, and emotionally devastating, it asks a single question:
If the world could be saved without you, would you let it?
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