When the algorithms control everything, reading becomes rebellion.
Skyler lives a comfortable, predictable life in a city where his AI assistant Alexis manages every detail, from his morning coffee to his entertainment to his vote. But when he meets Kat, a writer collecting banned books, he discovers that the algorithms don't just predict behavior—they control it. As they fall in love over secretly-read classics and whispered conversations, their social credit scores plummet, and the system pushes back with terrifying force. Skyler must choose between the safe predictability of algorithmic control and the dangerous uncertainty of human freedom.
Your personal assistant knows what you want before you do. It orders your food, drives your car, manages your friends, and even votes for you. Life is perfectly optimized. Perfectly controlled. Perfectly empty.
Skyler is an artist living a comfortable but hollow existence. His personal assistant Alexis handles his mundane decisions while he collects his UBI, scrolls through his personalized newsfeed, and works on his art: recycled-plastic sculptures. When he meets Kat, a writer who collects banned books, she introduces him to dangerous ideas from forbidden authors like Orwell, Huxley, and Bradbury.
Their secret rebellion begins with literature and ends with love. As they discover which books the algorithms don’t want them to read, they’re forced to hide their conversations, disguise their meetings, and watch their social credit scores plummet. Every whispered word brings them closer together and pushes them further outside the system.
But the algorithms are always watching. Always listening. Always calculating.
In a world where information wants to be free but people are imprisoned by data, two rebels must find a way to escape the ultimate surveillance state—before the algorithms delete them permanently.
