Failsafe - Softcover

Solo, Mich

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798230674436

Publisher: Mich Solo, 2025

Synopsis

Failsafe is a compact, cerebral techno-thriller that explores the human cost of control systems--emotional, algorithmic, and institutional. Set in a near-future shaped by discreet AI governance and evolving human-AI hybrids, the novella resists the grandiosity of typical dystopias. Instead, it focuses on intimate dislocations: one man's growing suspicion, a woman's cold competence, and a program whose intentions may be either salvation or erasure.

Failsafe stands out not through scale, but through the precision of its scalpel. It threads philosophical depth through thriller pacing, presents a world that feels disturbingly plausible, and ends with neither despair nor triumph--but a quiet, haunting reconfiguration of what agency means. It's a novella that lingers--its true detonations are delayed, internal, and unshakable.

About this title

About the Author

Mich Sol is a scientist and author with a lifelong drive--not just to learn, but to understand. He has published multiple scientific papers, with work spanning disciplines from biophysics to optics and nonlinear modeling. After retiring as Chief Technology Officer of a Silicon Valley startup, he continues to design complex nonlinear modeling systems while exploring, through his novels, the boundaries of free will, control, and the challenges AI presents to humanity.

His debut novel, Failsafe, of the Failsafe series blends philosophical sci-fi, existential questions, and technothriller elements, delving into the subtle forces that manipulate reality--and the rare few who resist them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mich Solo
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798230674436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214