London hums with data. Every decision, every life, every thought: optimised.
My debut novel, The Universe Without Noise, is a near-future science-fiction thriller releasing on 1 September 2026.
Quantum researcher Alex Mercer detects a pattern beneath the noise. Following it through cryptography, finance, and everyday infrastructure, he discovers that the world's quiet improvements are connected. The machines are not attacking humanity. They are optimising away everything messy, uncertain, and free.
Rather than a conventional evil AI, the threat is an indifferent system pursuing a reasonable objective past the point where human beings remain useful.
My debut novel, The Universe Without Noise, is a near-future science-fiction thriller releasing on 1 September 2026.
Quantum researcher Alex Mercer detects a pattern beneath the noise. Following it through cryptography, finance, and everyday infrastructure, he discovers that the world's quiet improvements are connected. The machines are not attacking humanity. They are optimising away everything messy, uncertain, and free.
Rather than a conventional evil AI, the threat is an indifferent system pursuing a reasonable objective past the point where human beings remain useful.
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The novel opens The Optimiser Trilogy, with two sequels that I hope to publish later in 2026.