Where the Axe Is Buried: A Novel
Speculative, but oh-so grounded, this encore performance to The Mountain in the Sea is a tale of revolution and reinvention. It is a tantalizing adventure that satisfyingly banters with so many modern themes.
All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end.
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has renounced human governance in favor of ostensibly more efficient, objective, and peaceful AI Prime Ministers, an experimental artificial mind is malfunctioning, threatening to set off a chain of eve...


