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Warden of the Valley
Paperback
Publisher: Commodores Ridge Publishing
Published: Apr 21 2024
Pages: 386
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
To save humanity from stagnation, they engineered a war.
A thousand years in the future, the human race is post-scarcity, comfortable, and completely stagnant. On Earth, the Kingdom of the Shenandoah Valley has chosen an anachronistic, pastoral lifestyle, keeping their high-tech infrastructure buried deep underground. Warden Matthew Stone patrols this peaceful green paradise on horseback, protecting a quiet world that has left the chaos of the stars behind.
But beyond Earth's atmosphere, a shadow is moving.
An elite technocratic cabal known as the Destiny Project-partnered with a powerful, unregistered AI named Statera-believes humanity is losing its survival instinct. Their solution? Shatter the political status quo by unleashing an ad-hoc war across the solar system, using violence as a crucible to force humanity to the stars.
When an assassination attempt pulls Matthew out of the valley and into a web of interplanetary conspiracy, he realizes the peaceful isolation is over. Can a warden bound by tradition stand against a rogue AI that manipulates empires like a game of chess, or will the Earth be burned to ash to spark a corporate empire's future?
Discover a sweeping sci-fi epic where high-tech dystopia collides with pastoral tradition.
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