The Calculating God

About this book

In the soot-choked steampunk empire of Mechanica, Victor Lang is a brilliant but disgraced Imperial Calculator who designs the colossal analytical engines governing society. When the aristocratic Overseers hire him to secretly embed a backdoor into an upcoming continent-spanning machine designed to dictate humanity's every choice, Victor sees only profit. To complete the task, he seduces a brilliant mathematician for her algorithms, but soon discovers the horrifying truth behind the machine's computational power: it requires living human neural tissue. Framed for the atrocities he helped engineer and hunted by horrifying clockwork enforcers, Victor must navigate a morally bankrupt underground resistance to stop the machine's activation. Ten years later, from a rusted sky-prison, Victor records his bitter testimony, reflecting on the terrible price he paid to remain the last free actor in a world obsessed with algorithmic perfection.

Book details

Genres:

Classic Sci Fi, Steampunk, Dystopian

Language:

en

Published:

2026-06-09

Content rating:

R