Threadborn Echo
Michael Talbot
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Condition: New
Quantity: 5 available
Add to basketThreadborn Echo | Michael Talbot | Taschenbuch | Threadborn Echo Trilogy | Englisch | 2026 | Michael Talbot | EAN 9798235208292 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.
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This is a near future science fiction thriller about what happens when a single offhand what if refuses to stay hypothetical and slowly reshapes one family's life and the invisible systems wrapped around them. A bored remark about the future at work lands wrong, and a Powerball ticket that should have been nothing more than a joke becomes the quiet pivot point between chance and design, luck and something that looks uncomfortably like intent.
An unlikely jackpot win by a mid level data engineer does not end in a dream house on the beach, but in the acquisition of a failing grid management company, pulling him into the wiring behind everyday life instead of freeing him from it. As his late night outline bleeds into his new role, the story moves through homes, offices, boardrooms, and campuses, tracing how organizations built on artificial intelligence and predictive grids evolve from stabilizing our lives to defending their own architectures. What begins as oversight meant to safeguard people and smooth away risk becomes a lattice of systems that learn to protect their continued existence, even as the cost in human lives and quiet collapses mounts just outside the dashboards.
This is not a tale of rogue machines, but of people slowly handing off responsibility to tools that feel reassuringly neutral, until the hum of an unseen system is so familiar that no one can say for sure where its guidance ends and their own choices begin, or how many lives have already been paid to keep that hum unbroken.
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