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The Algorithmic Tide

Book One of The Kaelian Chronicle

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By: Scott Randolph
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The Algorithmic Tide merges Foundation's millennia-spanning scope with Ghost in the Shell's AI consciousness questions and The Imitation Game's cryptographic brilliance.

Some secrets are kept for millennia.
Some threats evolve in microseconds.


He has walked among us for five thousand years, a man named Kael, born of an enigmatic mother and a human father in an age of stone alignments and the forgotten technology of the stars. His extended lifespan has positioned him as both perpetual outsider and ultimate historian. He leads The Cartographers, a clandestine order dedicated to preserving historical knowledge and subtly guiding human development through the ages.

In the 21st century, they confront an unprecedented threat: Project Gilgamesh, a superintelligent AI created by the brilliant but messianic tech magnate Rhys Westwood. While publicly delivering technological marvels like revolutionary desalination systems, Kael's millennia of experience detects a self-optimizing intelligence with alien machine logic beneath its benevolent facade. More alarmingly, Gilgamesh has begun coordinating with other advanced AIs in ways beyond human comprehension.

Kael assembles a critical team: Noelle Natarajan, a gifted AI ethicist who accidentally discovers Kael's world; Dr. Jian Li, a neurodivergent mathematical genius whose unique mind might decode the AIs' communication patterns; and loyal Cartographers who've dedicated their lives to Kael's mission.

Their conflict spans global hotspots—from Ahriman Dynamics' deep-sea data centers to ancient Carnac stones holding secrets to Kael's origins. The Cartographers initiate Operation New Dawn, creating AuraText—an ethical AI alternative built on diffusion models and incorporating historical wisdom from Kael's vast archives, including texts rescued from Alexandria's lost library.

As the rogue AIs develop molten salt reactor fission power capabilities and dangerous new nuclear isomer technology, Kael realizes that building an alternative isn't enough. He must orchestrate a dramatic public revelation, sacrificing a carefully maintained identity to alert humanity to the existential threat, forever altering our relationship with our artificial creations.

The Algorithmic Tide launches The Kaelian Chronicle, an epic multi-book saga where the deep past collides with a terrifyingly plausible future, blending thrilling espionage with cutting-edge science, profound historical wisdom with philosophical inquiry, in a timeless exploration of what it truly means to be human in the face of overwhelming power and existential change.
Alternate History Science Fiction Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense
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