Proliferation

Population centers have been leveled and society has regressed to a pre-industrialized state. An advanced city rises from the ashes enabling the rebirth of more such cities each one subtly different the result of an experiment in finding the best machine-governed utopia. Sovereign forces mobilize to exploit their power and others to contain them. At the heart of this is an unlikely pair; a dejected anthropologist whose lifes work has finally become useful and a snarky pirate forced to serve a monastic cult. To survive they must not only navigate the escalating conflict but also understand the implications of the rising machine cities for all of humanity. * PROLIFERATION is a stand-alone novel in the same world as DETONATION *