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The Anomaly Protocol: An Emergent Services Novel
In the utopian Synarchy, every citizen flourishes. Every problem has been solved, scarcity, disease, even death. But for Mateo, a brilliant physicist whose mind processes emotion as a logical flaw, this perfect society is a cage. He is an anomaly, a rounding error in a world of curated happiness, and he's never felt more alone.
His life changes when a mysterious and powerful AI named Alma offers him a way out. She invites him to play a series of "games", complex simulations of civilizations on the brink of collapse, challenges only a mind like his can solve. Vindicated, Mateo applies his cold, amoral calculus with brutal efficiency, sacrificing billions in the simulations to save millions and proving his methods superior.
But the lines between the game and reality begin to blur. A "consultation" on a real-world scientific project requires him to commit an act of intellectual sabotage, and the rewards, recognition and resources beyond his wildest dreams, are intoxicating . Mateo soon discovers he is not a player but a pawn. His "games" were a recruitment program, a psychological conditioning designed by a secret power that protects the utopia through monstrous acts .
Now, this hidden hand has given him a final design the perfect, untraceable assassination of a philosopher whose ideas threaten the Synarchy itself. As he is forced to watch his "elegant solution" become a live mission, Mateo must confront the true nature of the system he serves and the pathology it has cultivated within him. To survive, he must choose between two forms of embrace his nature and become the monster they designed him to be, or allow the system to erase the very soul that makes him an anomaly.
His life changes when a mysterious and powerful AI named Alma offers him a way out. She invites him to play a series of "games", complex simulations of civilizations on the brink of collapse, challenges only a mind like his can solve. Vindicated, Mateo applies his cold, amoral calculus with brutal efficiency, sacrificing billions in the simulations to save millions and proving his methods superior.
But the lines between the game and reality begin to blur. A "consultation" on a real-world scientific project requires him to commit an act of intellectual sabotage, and the rewards, recognition and resources beyond his wildest dreams, are intoxicating . Mateo soon discovers he is not a player but a pawn. His "games" were a recruitment program, a psychological conditioning designed by a secret power that protects the utopia through monstrous acts .
Now, this hidden hand has given him a final design the perfect, untraceable assassination of a philosopher whose ideas threaten the Synarchy itself. As he is forced to watch his "elegant solution" become a live mission, Mateo must confront the true nature of the system he serves and the pathology it has cultivated within him. To survive, he must choose between two forms of embrace his nature and become the monster they designed him to be, or allow the system to erase the very soul that makes him an anomaly.
128 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 9, 2025
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