The Semantic Rebellion
Published by Self-published · Fiction
A sci-fi novel following a data engineer's journey through a rapidly changing world shaped by AI and shifting power dynamics.
Who this book is for
A techno-thriller for readers who believe transparency is a powerful force in a democracy, pitched to fans of Michael Crichton and Daniel Suarez and to anyone who has been worn down by being on call for broken systems.
Table of contents
- Two-Thirteen A.M.
- Forty-Seven Databases
- The Meetup
- The Memo
- Concerns
- The Champion
- Ninety Days
- Proof of Concept, Proof of Value
- Scaling Trust
- The View from the Hill
- Anomaly
- Let It Rest
- The Other Side
- Convergence
- Follow the Money
- The Name on the Board
- Pressure Points
- The Colonel
- The Senator
- Emergency Meeting
- The Insider
- Race Against Transfer
- SILVERTHREAD
- Thursday
- Aftermath
- The Trial of Data
- The New Architecture
- Loose Threads
- The View from Here
- Epilogue: The Next Query
Excerpt
The phone buzzed at 2:13 in the morning. Not the gentle hum of a text message or the cheerful ping of a social media notification. This was the buzz. The angry, insistent vibration pattern that Alexjandro Olced had programmed specifically for PagerDuty alerts, the one that invaded his nervous system like a cattle prod wrapped in anxiety. He reached for the nightstand without opening his eyes, knocking over a glass of water in the process. The water spread across the wood surface and began dripping onto the carpet with the quiet patience of a system designed to ruin everything it touched.
