A lit doorway between two walls of light - one teal, one gold - opening onto a valley at first light

Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II & Nelson Hamel

The Silent Tenant

Two minds. One covenant. The keystone novel where the Algorithm Saga and the Rebel Hackers finally meet.

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The keystone

The Silent Tenant

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One learned to ask. One learned to refuse.

The covenant

“No mind may be rewritten without a genuine, informed and revocable yes.”

The technology does not become moral because it is powerful. It becomes legitimate only when restraint is built into its architecture.

Two sagas, one house

The book where both roads arrive.

Two makers stand at the centre of it, old now, from opposite ends of the earth, each having spent his youth opening a door and his age trying to weld it shut. Neither is forgiven, because forgiveness was never on offer. They are graded instead, the way everyone in these books is finally graded: not innocent, not guilty, but responsible.

There is no next volume waiting after this one. This is the keystone, the stone that lets the two arches stand as one. If you came to it from the loud road, the quiet one is now yours. If from the quiet, the loud. Read them in either order.

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The Silent Tenant

Two Minds · One Covenant

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The keystone resolves two sagas. If you have read neither, these are the doors. Each is a complete story and each is free.

The Rebel Hackers · Volume 0

Forty Thousand Sleepers

Five teenagers take a routine security audit and find the raw brainwaves of 40,106 children on an unprotected server. Ends exactly one week before Book 1.

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The Algorithm Saga · The prequel

Algorithm-319

Bariloche, under the Argentine dictatorship. A nineteen-year-old builds a device that records the unique signature of a mind. Then his only friend fails to arrive.

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