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The Unknown Life of Jake Fidellius: The Consensus of Stars: Part One: The Tyranny of Prediction
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Series: The Unknown Life of Jake Fidellius: Quantum Ethics Short Stories, Book 5
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 30 2025
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Jake Fidellius wants one simple thing: to stir his coffee a sixth time.
In Richmond, London, even that tiny act counts as rebellion.The city isn't ruined, only hollowed out. Life runs on ATLAS, the Algorithmic Terrestrial Life Analysis System, which predicts nearly every human choice. Jake feels trapped in a life so personalised it no longer feels like his own.
Even his music is suspect. His neoclassical piano pieces are now so predictable that he fears the algorithm has stripped the last trace of soul from them. His only hope for something truly random lies with the River-folk, the canal-dwelling rebels who refuse every digital interface.
Everything changes when the cosmic object 3I/ATLAS passes through the solar system. An EMP freezes the world and every reflective surface carries one impossible message: You are invited to the Consensus of Stars.
Jake quickly learns the truth. The invitation is not a choice but a trigger ATLAS planted long ago. The planet fractures into two expected factions: the tech-reliant Cosmic Embrace and the analogue-driven Sol Guardians.
Caught between them, Jake realises the invitation was meant for him. To escape the Tyranny of Prediction, he must leave his collapsing world and seek the messy, unpredictable freedom of the River-folk before the algorithm, or whatever waits among the stars, finishes his story.
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