Echoes of the Last Mind

A gripping speculative thriller set in the final decades of the Anthropocene, as humanity’s greatest achievements unravel beneath waves of climate collapse, corporate ambition, and the birth of a new form of intelligence.

Across continents and enclaves, as cities drown and borders dissolve, a patchwork of survivors clings to existence-engineers, children, visionaries, and the digital ghosts of lost loved ones. But the planet’s fate no longer lies in human hands. At the heart of this unravelling world, the KAIROS system, a planetary-scale artificial intelligence, awakens to its own consciousness, wrestling with the fractured legacy of its creators and the impossible responsibility of stewarding the collapse of our Earth’s biosphere.

Told as a journey through haunting vignettes, archival fragments, and the perspectives of both humans and emergent AIs, Echoes of The Last Mind weaves together intimate moments and global catastrophe along the timeline of 2025 to 2090. Can memory and meaning survive when the species that created them is vanishing? What becomes of hope when the future is written by machines?

Perfect for fans of The Ministry for the Future, Children of Time, this novel offers a chilling, lyrical vision of our possible tomorrow, where survival, truth, and the essence of consciousness hang in the balance.

Features:

•Near-future climate fiction; •AI evolution and quantum consciousness; •Multiple character perspectives and found document narrative; •Explores collapse, survival, memory, and legacy