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Publishing Date: February 3, 2026
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AUTHOR’S NOTE: HOW TO READ THIS BOOK
I need to be direct: this isn’t literary prose. If you’re looking for deep character studies or lyrical language, you’ll be disappointed.
The characters in this book are mirrors. They exist to reflect situations, ideas, and ethical dilemmas back to you—so you can examine your own beliefs, your own choices, your own future.
This book was born from things gnawing at me that I couldn’t shake.
The divisiveness in this country was driving me insane. I needed to get a handle on it for myself, so I researched both sides, tried to understand how we got here—and the idea for Part One emerged. At its heart is a miracle: my granddaughter’s birth, and her survival through a serious illness in her third year of life. She’s fictionalized as Janey, and her arrival amid chaos became the emotional anchor for everything that follows.
Part Two grew from my own confrontation with mortality and my frustration with not knowing what’s true anymore. The echo chambers created by social media, the inability to separate fact from fiction—I wanted to address these things, but not just complain. I researched viable technical solutions: the Truth Chain to verify what’s real, digital afterlife technology to extend our legacy, AI companions for the lonely. I also wanted to show how quickly a stable world can shift—the freshwater scarcity scenario is a reminder that geopolitical change can happen overnight.
The bonus preview is different. It’s a pure adventure story—no agenda, no heavy lifting. It was easier to write because it’s just a fun story.
I’m not writing to make money. I wrote this as catharsis, and with hope: that we can come together, that we can build tools to tell truth from lies, and that you might reflect on your own life—and your grandchildren’s future—and take action.
Instead of throwing my opinion into the pile with millions of others, I figured maybe people would absorb these points better through story and characters.
—John