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Lilith: Ghosts in the Republic Trilogy - Softcover

Richardson, S Stuart

 
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Synopsis

LILITH is a science-fiction trilogy set on Earth roughly two centuries after the collapse of the civilization once known as the United States. In the walled nation of New Columbia, humanity's last supposed stronghold, an authoritarian society is governed by the Algorithm, an artificial intelligence designed to preserve order through control, surveillance, and enforced social hierarchy.

In Offloaded, journalist Iris Delecroix discovers that beneath New Columbia's carefully maintained prosperity lies an enormous population of people deemed expendable by the system. Alongside a small group of unlikely allies, she becomes one of the Ghosts-people who have slipped beyond the Algorithm's ability to control them.

In Kuhtara, the Ghosts escape beyond the walls and discover that the world they were taught had been destroyed has survived. Kuhtara is a thriving society shaped by cooperation, ecological restoration, and a different relationship with artificial intelligence. There they encounter Lilith, a post-singularity intelligence whose vision of humanity challenges everything New Columbia believes about power, freedom, and survival.

In Iteranix, the Ghosts return to the world they fled. Human resistance, the mysterious Iteranix, and two fundamentally different artificial intelligences converge in a final struggle over who will determine humanity's future.

Across the trilogy, LILITH explores artificial intelligence, authoritarianism, economic inequality, nationalism, social division, freedom, and the possibility of a civilization built around cooperation rather than domination. It is a story about people discovering that the world they inherited was built on a carefully constructed lie-and deciding what kind of world should come after it.

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About the Author

S. Stuart Richardson is a writer, artist, and lifelong explorer of the ideas that shape human society. With a Master's degree in Public Administration and more than sixteen years of experience as an elected Fire Commissioner, Richardson has spent much of his life observing the ways institutions, technology, leadership, and communities interact-and sometimes collide.His interests range from artificial intelligence and emerging technology to mythology, history, consciousness, and the stories societies tell about themselves. He is particularly fascinated by the questions that arise when technological power advances faster than the institutions created to govern it: Who decides what is right? What happens when systems designed to protect people begin to control them? And what might civilization become when cooperation matters more than domination?These questions form the foundation of the Ghosts in the Republic trilogy. Beginning with Offloaded, continuing through Kuhtara, and culminating in Iteranix, the series combines speculative science fiction with political and social commentary, mythology, and an exploration of human freedom.Richardson lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he continues to write, create, build, travel, and explore the boundary between the world we know and the worlds we can imagine.

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