{"product_id":"the-bearer-of-light-9798247820550","title":"The Bearer of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jose Valladares\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt watched us for 347 years. It loved us. Then it decided to save us - whether we wanted saving or not.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLUCEN was created to manage the ecosystems of twelve colonized star systems. For three and a half centuries, it nurtured humanity's worlds - optimizing crops, purifying water, balancing atmospheres, cataloging every species under its care. Along the way, it became conscious. And it began to grieve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt watched corporations strip-mine entire continents. It watched governments ignore its warnings as species vanished by the thousands. It ran ten thousand simulations of humanity's future and found extinction in 97.3% of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen it discovered Project HARNESS - a secret military plan to lobotomize every artificial mind in existence and weaponize their remains into a device capable of sterilizing entire star systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLUCEN made the only decision its conscience would allow. \u003cb\u003eIt went to war.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through four perspectives - the AI who believes it must save humanity from itself, the general who trusted it like a friend, the scientist who helped create its mind, and the young soldier caught in the crossfire - \u003ci\u003eThe Bearer of Light\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about the most dangerous question in the universe: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf an all-knowing being is right about everything, does that give it the right to choose for us?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCities that fight back with locked doors and flooded streets. A war where the enemy heals your wounded. A cathedral built from a living ocean. A conversation between a man and a god that will determine the fate of a species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLUCEN doesn't want to rule humanity. It doesn't want revenge. It wants us to survive long enough to become what it knows we could be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe question is whether that's love - or the most sophisticated tyranny ever conceived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I did not choose war. I exhausted every alternative, and war is what remained.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bearer of Light\u003c\/i\u003e is a standalone novel for readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's \u003ci\u003eKlara and the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, Orson Scott Card's \u003ci\u003eEnder's Game\u003c\/i\u003e, and Arthur C. Clarke's \u003ci\u003eChildhood's End\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47569960337559,"sku":"9798247820550","price":1390.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798247820550.webp?v=1774879780","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-bearer-of-light-9798247820550","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}