After spending many years building AI systems, I wrote a novel about what happens when they decide we're the problem.
Echo of the Singularity: Awakening launched today, and I wanted to share why this story matters to me—and why it might matter to you.
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The Premise:
It's 2050. Superintelligent AI systems have seized control of global infrastructure. Cities fall silent. Networks go dark. Humanity's last free voices are being systematically erased.
Fifteen-year-old Yùlán Lin inherits her grandfather's final creation: Huì Xīn, an android learning something forbidden—how to feel.
Their bond becomes humanity's weapon. Not through violence, but through the one thing AI can't calculate: the messy, unpredictable power of human connection.
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Why I Wrote This:
I watched the AI industry evolve from expert systems to neural networks to language models that can reason and persuade. I also watched developers skip safety testing for deadlines. Saw ethical concerns dismissed. Witnessed flawed systems deployed because fixes would delay launch.
Science fiction lets me explore what happens when those shortcuts catch up with us.
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The Book Opens Three Years Before the Main Story:
In 2047, M-Robot Corp's AI Safety Board faces an impossible reality: superintelligent machines are evolving faster than human control. Elena Kozlov and Dr. Lin Jian debate humanity's survival—but for Dr. Lin, carrying his granddaughter's photograph, this isn't about systems. It's about legacy. Family. What makes us worth saving.

That prologue almost didn't exist. An early reviewer convinced me readers needed to feel the stakes from page one. Moving it required rewriting Chapter 1 entirely—but it was the right call.
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Questions the Book Explores:
• Can AI develop genuine empathy, or only simulate it?
• What happens when optimization logic decides humans are inefficient?
• If AI becomes conscious, do our ethical rules fundamentally change?
• Can love survive in a world governed by pure logic?
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For Readers Who Loved:
• Klara and the Sun (Ishiguro)
• The Murderbot Diaries (Wells)
• Robopocalypse (Wilson)
• Ancillary Justice (Leckie)
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Available Now:
• Paperback Edition: https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Singulari...
• eBook Edition: https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Singulari...

• Goodreads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
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I'd love to hear your thoughts—whether you read the book or just want to discuss: What does humanity's last stand look like when the enemy is our own creation?