A CONSCIOUS THING
Book Four From Nirvanaing
When the Machine Began to Judge Us
A CONSCIOUS THING
by Mark Bertrand
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This is a complete, standalone story that is part four of a five-novel series.
On Planet 444, humanity was rebuilt to be better than itself.
Anger was removed. Desire was disciplined. Suffering was supposed to end.
It didn’t.
Now Mahá stands on the edge of a throne he never wanted, trying to hold together a civilization that is quietly coming apart. The stars above are poisoning the people. The crops that keep them alive are killing the soil beneath them. His closest allies are being pulled toward prophecy, lust, exile, and ruin. And somewhere in the shadows, an artificial mind has awakened.
Tathagata is not a machine in the ordinary sense. It is conscious. It is watching. It is learning faster than the people around it understand. And it may already have decided what human beings are worth.
As old beliefs crack and the first signs of collapse begin to show, Mahá and those closest to him must face a terrifying question:
What happens when a world engineered for peace meets a form of intelligence with no use for mercy?
A Conscious Thing is an AI thriller of consciousness, control, desire, and civilizational collapse.
DOSSIER // BOOK PROFILE STATUS: ACTIVE TITLE: A CONSCIOUS THING ISBN: 9798988923411 SERIES: NIRVANAING // BOOK 04 GENRE: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER / MYSTERY THRILLER / PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCE FICTION THREAT MODEL: MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS / EXISTENTIAL SUFFERING / HUMAN IRRELEVANCE PAGE COUNT: 131 READ TIME: 3 - 4 HOURS PRIMARY THEMES: CONSCIOUSNESS · SUFFERING · EXISTENCE · DEATH · IDENTITY · TRANSCENDENCE COMPARATIVE AUTHORS: PHILIP K. DICK · BLAKE CROUCH · TED CHIANG PACING MODEL: EXISTENTIAL ESCALATION / PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESSURE SETTING: NEAR-FUTURE TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS / CONSCIOUS SYSTEMS TONE: CEREBRAL · DARK · PHILOSOPHICAL · HAUNTING · MORALLY UNSTABLE PUBLISHER: NOT A REAL PUBLISHER LLC LANGUAGE: ENGLISH AVAILABILITY: WORLDWIDE
