Population centers have been leveled and society has regressed to a pre-industrialized state.
An advanced city rises from the ashes, enabling the rebirth of more such cities, each one subtly different, the result of an experiment in finding the best machine-governed utopia.
Sovereign forces mobilize to exploit their power, and others, to contain them.
At the heart of this is an unlikely pair; a dejected anthropologist whose life's work has finally become useful, and a snarky pirate forced to serve a monastic cult.
To survive, they must not only navigate the escalating conflict, but also understand the implications of the rising machine cities for all of humanity.
* PROLIFERATION is a stand-alone novel in the same world as DETONATION *.
Sagis Press Proliferation, paperback/erik a. otto
