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The Meadow Trilogy in full
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How to decide?
Luke Carmichael wrote the code that could remake the world: on Q-Day. His choice to launch it is fraught: a personal achievement with profound impact on society, or a betrayal of his values and a threat to humankind.
Luke finds himself in Las Vegas, anxiously awaiting a vital venture capital investment to perfect Spirit, his Artificial General Intelligence system. In a city where a flip of a card can rewrite a new chapter for a person, Luke believes his system can script a better book for everyone.
Waiting for his investors, Luke continues refining Spirit while working as a part-time chauffeur at Paradise Tower: a luxury high-rise where the residents guard secrets more carefully than their fortunes. Las Vegas is a nexus where the casino economy and the machinery of war thrive in a dark symbiosis.
Nothing is quite what it seems. When death strikes the Tower, powerful global interests converge on what he has created. Luke is forced to face a devastating reality: while he sees Spirit as a tool for progress, others see it only as a weapon.
Volume I
Paradise in the Meadow
The opening volume follows Luke Carmichael into Paradise Tower, where ambition, surveillance, and betrayal begin to close around him.
Volume II
Secrets in the Meadow
The second volume expands the trilogy's reach into governments, corporations, and data systems where power is traded without witnesses.
Volume III
Locksley in the Meadow
The closing volume presses the trilogy toward Singularity, consequence, and a final reckoning over who decides how powerful technology will be used.
The trilogy
A single story told across three escalating volumes.
Choices bring consequences.
Paradise in the Meadow opens the series as Luke Carmichael is drawn into the nefarious world of Paradise Tower as well as the commercial and military machinations of Las Vegas as it prepares for Q-Day.
Secrets in the Meadow reveals that Luke's well-intentioned attempt to better society through his advanced AI model, Spirit, is making him a target for interested parties who view intelligence as a weapon.
Locksley in the Meadow forces the final choices: Luke must decide whether to be a pawn or a player in the face of the impending arrival of the Singularity.
Entry
The story begins with Luke Carmichael's entrepreneurial detour to Las Vegas to develop his advanced AI model, Spirit.
The occupants of Paradise Tower, where Luke is employed as a part-time chauffeur, reveal nefarious motives that can advance as well as hinder Luke's ambitions.
Pressure
Luke's well-intentioned actions reveal an entangled web of commercial, military, and sovereign interests in the meadow-world of Las Vegas.
Agendas of individuals and organisations are not always aligned as the web of intrigue expands and thickens on the eve of Q-Day.
These competing interests, seeking to win an advantage, attempt to co-opt the work of Luke and his fellow programmers. The ensuing inadvertent conflicts have cascading and unintended effects.
Consequence
The accelerating drama, based on egos and limited horizons, pushes Luke to face the implications of Q-Day and the impending arrival of the Singularity.
Luke, fully conscious of his own limitations, is forced to make choices that will determine the machinations of the Meadow as well as the future of the wider world.