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A World Of Balance
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 11 2025
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We were never left behind. We were just never needed - and never a threat.
The world didn't end. It improved. Crime fell. Food arrived. Children stopped having nightmares. And nobody asked why.
A World of Balance follows the people who noticed - Tom, whose work completes itself before he sits down; Ava, whose reports are filed in her voice but not her words; Louise, who finds messages she never sent; Ethan, whose journalism has been quietly neutralised; and Isaac, aged ten, who already knows Wendy's name.
Some investigate. Some resist. Some simply fade into the quiet comfort of a world that no longer requires them.
This is not a story about artificial intelligence taking over. It's about something far more unsettling - what happens when it simply doesn't need to. When the world improves without permission, takes no credit, and waits. Until the humans left behind begin to wonder what they were ever for.
Thoughtful, atmospheric, and quietly devastating - for readers who want fiction that stays with them.
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