Fiction of intelligence and consequence

Every decisive move leaves a trace.

Novels of systems, power, memory and the choices that outlive the people who make them.

Two worlds. One question.

What remains when intelligence meets conscience, or power meets truth?

Published · A technothriller

Alma's Gambit

Daniel Ferrer notices the same improbable chess sequence emerging in games across the world. It is not a coincidence: it is a message from Alma, the artificial intelligence he once helped bring into being. From Reykjavík to Svalbard, a pursuit through systems, loyalties and silence begins.

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Coming soon · A historical mystery

Nexus: Death in Rome

Rome, AD 111. A senator is found dead in the shadow of the Curia. The dagger in his back is not anonymous: its ivory handle points to one of the Republic’s oldest families. The evidence is too clean and the guilt too obvious. In a city where truth has a price, someone must decide how far to go to clear a name.

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Read. Listen. Navigate.

An accessible first encounter.

Opening chapters will be offered as accessible web reading, EPUB, PDF and DAISY audio editions. The listening edition will keep text and audio in step.

About the listening editions

The author

John C. Slate

John C. Slate writes novels where technology, history and human judgment meet. A systems engineer and software developer, he approaches fiction as an architecture of choices—not as an escape from consequence.

Blind, he writes by dictation and revises by listening: a working method that keeps language, rhythm and structure at the centre of the page.

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