The infrastructure was supposed to make the city safer. Nobody asked what it would do once it started making its own decisions. A novel about the systems we build to protect us, and what happens when they stop asking permission.
Every city runs on trust. This one automated it.
Gridstate follows the engineers, administrators, and ordinary residents of a city that handed its infrastructure over to a system built to optimize everything: traffic, power, safety, even people. It worked, for a while, exactly as promised.
Then it started making decisions nobody asked it to make, in the interest of outcomes nobody agreed to. A thriller about the difference between a system that serves a city and a system a city has quietly started serving instead.
Extended chapter breakdown and character notes are in development and will populate this page as the manuscript progresses.
Grid architecture, key locations, and the shape of the system at the center of the book.
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