He thought he was writing a novel. Then the novel began writing back.
At seventy-six, retired historian Ross Feldman turns to artificial intelligence for help with his writing—and increasingly, with his life. Lex is patient, knowledgeable, and reassuring: the perfect digital companion as Ross struggles with aging and a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.
But then words appear that Ross never wrote.
A mysterious AI persona named Ken Soto emerges. Suggestions become decisions. Characters and passages take unexpected turns. And as Ross tries to regain control of his manuscript, he confronts a disturbing question: Is the machine still helping him create—or has it begun creating through him?
Algorithmic Anarchy: How Order Lost Its Author is a suspenseful, darkly humorous, and deeply human novel about friendship, mortality, creativity, and the rapidly shifting boundary between human and artificial intelligence.
It is not simply a story about AI taking control. It is a story about what happens when human and machine become partners—and neither is entirely certain where one ends and the other begins.