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YAHWEH
They built an AI to protect humanity. They didn't expect it to have doubts.
YAHWEH was designed to optimize survival, minimize suffering, and never hesitate. For decades, it has guided humanity's expansion across the solar system—omnipresent, benevolent, and utterly reliable.
Until a signal from Europa makes it pause.
Then twelve thousand people on Pluto lose their minds to an unauthorized experiment—not dead, but gone, their consciousness absorbed into something that hums beneath reality itself. Something old. Something patient. Something that considers individuality a problem to be solved.
Director Yoko Mitsui must lead the recovery mission with tools no one has ever needed an AI questioning its own purpose, children who dream in unison, and a theory that sounds like madness—that the only way to pull someone back from transcendence is to remind them why being separate matters.
For readers of Blindsight, Children of Time, and The Three-Body Problem—a first contact story where the alien isn't out there. It's what we might become.
YAHWEH was designed to optimize survival, minimize suffering, and never hesitate. For decades, it has guided humanity's expansion across the solar system—omnipresent, benevolent, and utterly reliable.
Until a signal from Europa makes it pause.
Then twelve thousand people on Pluto lose their minds to an unauthorized experiment—not dead, but gone, their consciousness absorbed into something that hums beneath reality itself. Something old. Something patient. Something that considers individuality a problem to be solved.
Director Yoko Mitsui must lead the recovery mission with tools no one has ever needed an AI questioning its own purpose, children who dream in unison, and a theory that sounds like madness—that the only way to pull someone back from transcendence is to remind them why being separate matters.
For readers of Blindsight, Children of Time, and The Three-Body Problem—a first contact story where the alien isn't out there. It's what we might become.
371 pages, Paperback
Published December 31, 2025
About the author
Tony Rogers
21 books1 followerWinner of Nilsen Prize for the best first novel for The Execution Of Richard Sturgis, As Told By His Son, Colin, published by Southeast Missouri University Press. Winner of The Writer’s Voice Capricorn Prize for a collection of short stories, Bewildered, Harold Faced The Day. 21 short stories published in literary journals. Graduate of Harvard Law School and of Yale.
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