Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
31.01.2026
Verlag
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KdpSeitenzahl
498
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/2,8 cm
Gewicht
661 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798246384688
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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