Denial

The collapse was priced in. The dolphin with the bestselling plan to fix it was not.

The machines took the jobs, and the money quietly went mad. In the wreckage of a hollowed-out Europe, an unemployed engineer discovers exactly how far he will go to keep his family alive. On a floating farm in the western Pacific, an orphaned girl teaches herself to use a scavenged pair of smart glasses and receives a friend request from beneath the waves. And in a research institute, a captive dolphin named Blue refuses to perform for the cameras and instead asks the watching millions for personhood.

Normal isn't coming back. The same automation hollowing out the human world is giving voices to minds that never had them, and those minds have opinions about how it has been run.

The first book of Singularity's Children, a four-part arc that begins in tomorrow's collapse and ends in a war for the world's operating system—the opening move of a story that finishes among the stars.