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Some secrets are kept for millennia.
Some threats evolve in microseconds.

He has walked among us for five thousand years, a man named Kael, born of an enigmatic mother and a human father in an age of stone alignments and the forgotten technology of the stars. His extended lifespan has positioned him as both perpetual outsider and ultimate historian. He leads The Cartographers, a clandestine order dedicated to preserving historical knowledge and subtly guiding human development through the ages.

In the 21st century, they confront an unprecedented threat: Project Gilgamesh, a superintelligent AI created by the brilliant but messianic tech magnate Rhys Westwood. While publicly delivering technological marvels like revolutionary desalination systems, Kael's millennia of experience detects a self-optimizing intelligence with alien machine logic beneath its benevolent facade. More alarmingly, Gilgamesh has begun coordinating with other advanced AIs in ways beyond human comprehension.

Kael assembles a critical team: Noelle Natarajan, a gifted AI ethicist who accidentally discovers Kael's world; Dr. Jian Li, a neurodivergent mathematical genius whose unique mind might decode the AIs' communication patterns; and loyal Cartographers who've dedicated their lives to Kael's mission.

Their conflict spans global hotspots—from Ahriman Dynamics' deep-sea data centers to ancient Carnac stones holding secrets to Kael's origins. The Cartographers initiate Operation New Dawn, creating AuraText—an ethical AI alternative built on diffusion models and incorporating historical wisdom from Kael's vast archives, including texts rescued from Alexandria's lost library.

As the rogue AIs develop molten salt reactor fission power capabilities and dangerous new nuclear isomer technology, Kael realizes that building an alternative isn't enough. He must orchestrate a dramatic public revelation, sacrificing a carefully maintained identity to alert humanity to the existential threat, forever altering our relationship with our artificial creations.

"The Algorithmic Tide" launches The Kaelian Chronicle, an epic saga where the deep past collides with a terrifyingly plausible future, blending thrilling espionage with cutting-edge science, profound historical wisdom with philosophical inquiry, in a timeless exploration of what it truly means to be human in the face of overwhelming power and existential change.

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Before embracing AI, I authored 24 books and edited many more in the traditional way—just a word processor, my knowledge and imagination, and years of dedicated craftsmanship.

My journey with technology is not just professional; it is lifelong and deeply personal. As detailed in The Unlikely Cartographer, I have spent more than five decades walking on artificial legs—a hands-on process of adapting to and mastering constantly evolving technologies. This experience didn't grant me an automatic advantage; it forged a relentless work ethic and a unique intuition and facility to adapt to complex systems. It is this combination of lived experience and decades of dedicated adaptive effort that allowed me to master and teach some of the most complex design software on the planet to architects and engineers for 25 years.

It was a natural evolution to bring this same deep-tech focus to my creative work. My use of AI is not a casual dalliance with a single tool; it is a custom-built ecosystem. It involves a deep and iterative dialogue with Large Language Models, hands-on work with diffusion models for art, building custom pipelines, and leveraging bleeding-edge tools for everything from research to translation. To be precise with the metaphor...

So, what does this mean for you, the reader? It means the stories are better. The worlds are richer, the research is deeper, and the editing is sharper. Every aspect of my craft—from outlining to final polish—is elevated. This fusion of my experience as a lifelong author with a master craftsman's command of next-generation tools results in a superior reading experience. It is my sincere hope that you enjoy the fruits of these labours.

This is not AI-generated slop.

This is human-authored art, elevated.
This is augmented craftsmanship.

—Scott Randolph Onstott

The Kaelian Chronicle is an epic literary science fiction saga that follows Kael, a five-thousand-year-old enigma, as he navigates the greatest challenges civilization has ever faced across the sweep of history and into an uncertain future.

Born of mysterious origins in an age of stone alignments and the forgotten technology of the stars, Kael has walked among us throughout all of recorded history as both perpetual outsider and ultimate historian who lived it. Leading The Cartographers—a clandestine order dedicated to preserving knowledge and subtly guiding human development—he has witnessed the rise and fall of empires, the birth of philosophies, and the evolution of consciousness itself.

But immortality is not a gift; it is a burden of infinite responsibility.

From ancient Carnac to the AI age, from the halls of classical Athens to the laboratories of tomorrow, Kael confronts threats that span millennia and evolve in microseconds. Whether facing the machinations of rival immortals, the emergence of superintelligent AIs, or the fundamental questions of consciousness and reality, he must draw upon the accumulated wisdom of ages while adapting to challenges no one has ever encountered.

The Kaelian Chronicle blends the philosophical depth of classical literature with cutting-edge speculative science and alternative history, exploring profound questions about the nature of humanity, reality, and our place in an ever-evolving cosmos through the lens of rigorous scientific extrapolation and deep historical interpolation. It is a meditation on wisdom and power, memory and identity, and how the lessons of the past illuminate the perils of the future.

This is speculative fiction at its most ambitious—a series that dares to ask whether ancient wisdom can illuminate modern dilemmas, whether immortal perspective can guide mortal choices, and what it truly means to be human when the very definition of humanity is actively being rewritten.

THE ALGORITHMIC TIDE

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