Guardian (Paperback)

A vast computer network controls every minute of every day of every citizen of Eden, the last civilized place on a shattered Earth. But it's not the tyranny of artificial intelligence that worries David and his ragtag group of misfits, it's the all-powerful Church of the Great Awakening. They don't take kindly to deviants or heretics, and David and his friends are both deviants and heretics. To complicate matters, the barbarians beyond the border are getting restless and there are whispers of yet another war.

Dr. Hercules Bantas has spent far too much of his time reading ponderous tomes, written by authors who use one thousand words where one hundred would suffice. It was while juggling no less than three publications on a single subject by the same author that the idea of The Reluctant Geek Guides was born. He is well aware that publishing clearly written and unambiguous guides to important ideas in the human sciences is frowned upon in some circles, but he's going to do it anyway.