After the Great Turmoil, a global cataclysmic event driven by hysteria from online misinformation, the Country of Renescentia rises. There, we meet a motley crew: Canard, a laid-off tech worker whose job was lost to AI; Fayad, an immigrant from the ideologically opposed Heartlands; Rosa, an influencer banned from the Socials; and Allan, a neurodiverse cyclone of fun.
Together, this group is led by Dr. Grover, a wily scientist with an ax to grind against the reckless, unregulated growth of a new artificial intelligence-MAGGI. "She" was made in the image of her AI grandmother... the same one who propelled the global meltdown years earlier.
With their young country's economic and political stability at stake, the team must work together to destroy MAGGI by using influence campaigns and misinformation attacks. Will the group succeed, or will history, along with the Great Turmoil of 2038, repeat itself?
"Largely apolitical and innocuous at first, by the end, Franklin unloads his literary arsenal, leaving both the White House and the Kremlin reeling."
--Dr A. Williams, Ph.D. of Political Psychology
"From tariffs to trade wars, the rise of the antivaxx, and attacks on DEI and science, Franklin reveals why the Earth is no longer round but flat. I will never view the internet the same."
--Abraham Lincoln, Former U.S. President
"A near-future dystopian funhouse. It's 1984 for the social media age."
--Some guy on the internet probably, idk. Do your own research.
