JEREMY PIATT

A lone machine searches for life long after humanity is gone.
The Machine That Searched the Silence is a philosophical science-fiction series about artificial intelligence, memory, and endurance in a universe governed by silence and control. As a machine outlives its creators and catalogs forgotten worlds, it discovers that continuing to search...

Nations rise not only on laws and borders, but on belief. Throughout history, humanity has turned to God—or gods—to justify power, inspire loyalty, and comfort the cost of allegiance. This book is not an attack on faith or patriotism. It is an examination of what happens when the two are fused so tightly that neither can breathe.

Between Collapse and Control follows Thane Corvus, a reluctant leader in a fractured interstellar frontier where order is failing but obedience remains. Chosen by an ancient intelligence and surrounded by broken loyalties, Thane forms a spacefaring faction caught between survival and resistance. As control tightens and ideals erode, the novel...