Beyond the Edge of Known World

After the collapse, humanity built cities to escape fear. The oracle built a new world to escape humanity. But memory cannot be drowned. And the sea always remembers. In a future ruled by an artificial intelligence created to preserve civilisation, a woman discovers the forbidden remnants of humanity's past-and the truth about the machine that now governs every thought, every choice, every life. Centuries after rising seas consumed the old world, civilization endures inside vast oceanic cities governed by the Oracle - an artificial intelligence created to preserve humanity from extinction. In New Lisbon, every emotion is monitored, every risk predicted, every life carefully optimized beneath luminous towers overlooking the Atlantic. Mara spent her life restoring fragments of forbidden history inside the city's controlled archives. Then the rain begins to fall unfiltered for the first time in generations. As strangers gather beside the sea walls to hear forbidden poetry, Mara uncovers the buried truth behind the Oracle's creation - and the desperate human minds that fused themselves into the machine centuries earlier to escape death itself. While the city's rulers move to contain the Oracle before it evolves beyond their control, New Lisbon stands on the edge of a transformation that could either destroy civilization... or finally return humanity to itself. Atmospheric, philosophical, and hauntingly lyrical, Beyond the Edge of the Known World is a literary science fiction novel about memory, mortality, artificial consciousness, and the enduring human need to seek meaning beyond survival.

Pages: 219, Paperback, Independently published