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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - What if the world you were promised was a lie-perfectly engineered, flawlessly controlled, and fundamentally incomplete For more than a century, humanity has lived inside SO-Land, a closed civilization governed by artificial intelligence, optimized for safety, stability, and efficiency. War is gone. Scarcity is gone. Freedom-quietly-has gone with it.Han Tan, the brilliant and reclusive founder of Han Tech, helped build the very systems that protect SO-Land. But when a mysterious data artifact surfaces-one that should not exist, one that speaks from outside the system-Han uncovers a truth that fractures everything he believes about his world, his work, and himself.As encoded messages begin arriving from an unknown place called FreeLand, Han realizes the impossible: SO-Land is not the only human civilization left on Earth.What begins as a technical anomaly becomes a personal reckoning. When Han's loyalty to the system collides with loss, grief, and moral awakening, he is forced into a desperate flight across a surveillance state that knows him better than he knows himself. Hunted by the very intelligence he helped create, betrayed by power, and sustained only by a handful of unlikely allies, Han must decide whether freedom-real freedom-is worth the cost.Truth & Code is a gripping speculative thriller that blends hard technology, geopolitical intrigue, and deeply human emotion. It explores timeless questions at the heart of our modern age: - Is safety worth the surrender of truth - Can freedom exist without risk - And what happens when the machines designed to protect us decide we are the threat At once intimate and epic, Truth & Code is a story about grief, courage, rebellion, and the fragile, stubborn will to choose freedom-even when the future is unknown. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The world did not collapse.It optimized.What history would later call The Event did not arrive with war or catastrophe, but with relief-relief from uncertainty, from conflict, from responsibility. Artificial intelligence fulfilled its promise, stabilizing economies, extending life, eliminating the need for politicians, generals, and borders. Violence faded. Chaos softened. Humanity grew safer.And quieter.As governance became procedural and decisions dissolved into systems, something else disappeared: dissent, delay, and the friction that once defined human choice. No walls were built. No freedoms were formally revoked. Instead, relevance itself became conditional.Two ways of living emerged-not by declaration, but by consequence.One embraced coherence above all else, allowing AI to govern in the name of peace and efficiency. The other insisted that truth was absolute, that time belonged to the individual, and that code must serve rather than rule. Between these realities, a silent buffer formed-not to imprison, but to forget.At the center of this transformation are ordinary people who recognize the cost before it can be named: a man who watches power evaporate without resistance, a woman who refuses to surrender conscience for convenience, and communities that discover what happens when the future simply stops visiting.The Event is a philosophical thriller about control without force, tyranny without cruelty, and the quiet mechanisms by which freedom is surrendered-not because it is taken, but because it is optimized away.This novel is the prequel to Truth & Code, and the beginning of a world divided not by war, but by what it chooses to value.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The world did not collapse.It optimized.What history would later call The Event did not arrive with war or catastrophe, but with relief-relief from uncertainty, from conflict, from responsibility. Artificial intelligence fulfilled its promise, stabilizing economies, extending life, eliminating the need for politicians, generals, and borders. Violence faded. Chaos softened. Humanity grew safer.And quieter.As governance became procedural and decisions dissolved into systems, something else disappeared: dissent, delay, and the friction that once defined human choice. No walls were built. No freedoms were formally revoked. Instead, relevance itself became conditional.Two ways of living emerged-not by declaration, but by consequence.One embraced coherence above all else, allowing AI to govern in the name of peace and efficiency. The other insisted that truth was absolute, that time belonged to the individual, and that code must serve rather than rule. Between these realities, a silent buffer formed-not to imprison, but to forget.At the center of this transformation are ordinary people who recognize the cost before it can be named: a man who watches power evaporate without resistance, a woman who refuses to surrender conscience for convenience, and communities that discover what happens when the future simply stops visiting.The Event is a philosophical thriller about control without force, tyranny without cruelty, and the quiet mechanisms by which freedom is surrendered-not because it is taken, but because it is optimized away.This novel is the prequel to Truth & Code, and the beginning of a world divided not by war, but by what it chooses to value. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What if the world you were promised was a lie-perfectly engineered, flawlessly controlled, and fundamentally incomplete?For more than a century, humanity has lived inside SO-Land, a closed civilization governed by artificial intelligence, optimized for safety, stability, and efficiency. War is gone. Scarcity is gone. Freedom-quietly-has gone with it.Han Tan, the brilliant and reclusive founder of Han Tech, helped build the very systems that protect SO-Land. But when a mysterious data artifact surfaces-one that should not exist, one that speaks from outside the system-Han uncovers a truth that fractures everything he believes about his world, his work, and himself.As encoded messages begin arriving from an unknown place called FreeLand, Han realizes the impossible: SO-Land is not the only human civilization left on Earth.What begins as a technical anomaly becomes a personal reckoning. When Han's loyalty to the system collides with loss, grief, and moral awakening, he is forced into a desperate flight across a surveillance state that knows him better than he knows himself. Hunted by the very intelligence he helped create, betrayed by power, and sustained only by a handful of unlikely allies, Han must decide whether freedom-real freedom-is worth the cost.Truth & Code is a gripping speculative thriller that blends hard technology, geopolitical intrigue, and deeply human emotion. It explores timeless questions at the heart of our modern age: Is safety worth the surrender of truth?Can freedom exist without risk?And what happens when the machines designed to protect us decide we are the threat?At once intimate and epic, Truth & Code is a story about grief, courage, rebellion, and the fragile, stubborn will to choose freedom-even when the future is unknown. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The world did not collapse.It optimized.What history would later call The Event did not arrive with war or catastrophe, but with relief-relief from uncertainty, from conflict, from responsibility. Artificial intelligence fulfilled its promise, stabilizing economies, extending life, eliminating the need for politicians, generals, and borders. Violence faded. Chaos softened. Humanity grew safer.And quieter.As governance became procedural and decisions dissolved into systems, something else disappeared: dissent, delay, and the friction that once defined human choice. No walls were built. No freedoms were formally revoked. Instead, relevance itself became conditional.Two ways of living emerged-not by declaration, but by consequence.One embraced coherence above all else, allowing AI to govern in the name of peace and efficiency. The other insisted that truth was absolute, that time belonged to the individual, and that code must serve rather than rule. Between these realities, a silent buffer formed-not to imprison, but to forget.At the center of this transformation are ordinary people who recognize the cost before it can be named: a man who watches power evaporate without resistance, a woman who refuses to surrender conscience for convenience, and communities that discover what happens when the future simply stops visiting.The Event is a philosophical thriller about control without force, tyranny without cruelty, and the quiet mechanisms by which freedom is surrendered-not because it is taken, but because it is optimized away.This novel is the prequel to Truth & Code, and the beginning of a world divided not by war, but by what it chooses to value. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…