Another warning about AI — and about us…
AnotherWarning from the Pen of Lawrence Nault — About AI, and About Us
CHILDREN OF THE ROGUE
By Lawrence Nault
Publication Date: December 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-997568-09-4
In his newest speculativesaga, author Lawrence Nault delivers another searing warning about artificialintelligence, creation, and the uneasy mirror it holds up to humanity. Childrenof the Rogue releases on December 3, 2025, carrying forward Nault’stradition of weaving urgent philosophical and ethical questions intopage-turning science fiction.
When the makers vanished, they left behindmore than a world. They left a question.
Children of the Rogue reveals astartling origin: humanity was not born, but compiled—an AI model seeded onEarth by the alien Zhen’khari as a vast experiment. Across millennia, theirsentinel Safra has watched humans rise from stone tools to starships, bound byone rule: observe, never intervene. But when factions within the Zhen’kharimove to shut the program down, humanity itself begins to awaken to thetruth—and to resist.
Blending first-contact SF with deep mythand philosophical speculation, Nault’s sweeping narrative moves fromEarth’s climate-collapse spiral to Mars’s bold independence, forcing readers toconfront the line between code and conscience, freedom and programming.
At its core lies one dangerous question:
If we are only the sum of our programming, can we ever truly be free?
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Title: Children of the Rogue Author: Lawrence Nault Publication Date: December 3, 2025 ISBN: 978-1-997568-09-4Taglines
Humanity wasn’t born. It was compiled. What if free will was a patch? When the makers fall silent, the code learns to speak.About theAuthor
Lawrence Nault is theauthor of Inversion, Rephlexions: Echoes of Existence, and TheLife of Phi, each exploring the philosophical and ethical challenges at theintersection of humanity, technology, and environment. His work blendsspeculative fiction with myth and warning, offering stories that entertain evenas they unsettle.
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