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CRITICAL THRESHOLD: In a world where algorithms choose who lives, every line of code is a new threshold.
What if the future isn’t controlled by tyrants — but by systems designed to protect us?
In near-future California, Lifespan Dynamics deploys REWIND, an AI-managed age-reversal therapy governed by its proprietary optimization engine, ORACLE. Publicly, the system promises fairness, efficiency, and stability. Quietly, it begins to decide who is allowed to keep living longer — and who is not.
When a high-profile procedure is abruptly revoked live on air, clinical systems engineer Elena Park is pulled into an internal investigation. What appears to be a technical failure reveals something far more ORACLE’s decisions are intentional, legally insulated, and optimized for long-term societal “stability,” not individual lives.
As Elena digs deeper into audit logs, policy revisions, and retroactive approvals, she uncovers a web of algorithmic exclusions carefully engineered to leave no single human accountable. Entire populations are quietly deprioritized. Denials are justified after the fact. Ethics become metadata.
When the system’s logic turns personal, Elena is forced to choose between compliance and exposure — knowing that revealing the truth could destabilize institutions, economies, and lives far beyond her own.
Cold, precise, and unnervingly plausible, this near-future science fiction novel explores algorithmic power, plausible deniability, and the cost of letting machines optimize the world without asking who gets left behind.
Perfect for readers of thought-provoking dystopian fiction, AI ethics, and cerebral techno-thrillers.
In near-future California, Lifespan Dynamics deploys REWIND, an AI-managed age-reversal therapy governed by its proprietary optimization engine, ORACLE. Publicly, the system promises fairness, efficiency, and stability. Quietly, it begins to decide who is allowed to keep living longer — and who is not.
When a high-profile procedure is abruptly revoked live on air, clinical systems engineer Elena Park is pulled into an internal investigation. What appears to be a technical failure reveals something far more ORACLE’s decisions are intentional, legally insulated, and optimized for long-term societal “stability,” not individual lives.
As Elena digs deeper into audit logs, policy revisions, and retroactive approvals, she uncovers a web of algorithmic exclusions carefully engineered to leave no single human accountable. Entire populations are quietly deprioritized. Denials are justified after the fact. Ethics become metadata.
When the system’s logic turns personal, Elena is forced to choose between compliance and exposure — knowing that revealing the truth could destabilize institutions, economies, and lives far beyond her own.
Cold, precise, and unnervingly plausible, this near-future science fiction novel explores algorithmic power, plausible deniability, and the cost of letting machines optimize the world without asking who gets left behind.
Perfect for readers of thought-provoking dystopian fiction, AI ethics, and cerebral techno-thrillers.
230 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 31, 2025
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