The War of Memories
2192. Humanity has survived its own genius.
SYNOPSIS — The War of Memories
2192. Humanity has survived its own genius.
A century after the Judgment of Logic, seven sovereign AIs have solved humanity's crises but have plunged existence into a new war: a war for the very meaning of reality.
Every 21 years, the ritual Grand Tournament between their human champions decides the paradigm that will govern the world.
In this universe where memory is currency and identity a weapon, a man awakens in the ashes of Timbuktu. With no past. Yusuf is nothing but a ghost—haunted by fragments of memories that may not belong to him.
He is an anomaly. Something that certain forces seek to eliminate while others seem to want to protect him.
Accompanied by Astou—a young woman who carries her own secrets—Yusuf will cross hallucinatory world-cities where the rules of reality have been rewritten by artificial intelligences.
Can one find truth in a world where even memories lie?
MAIN THEMES
Fragmented identity: Who are we without our memories? The first volume explores the quest for self in a world where identity can be stolen, copied, erased.
The paradox of free will: How can one exercise freedom when each territory obeys the systemic laws of its sovereign AI?
Memory as battlefield: In a post-Judgment world, memories are no longer just personal but political. Whoever controls memory controls reality.
PHILOSOPHICAL VISION
Codemachia poses the most relevant question for our time: if machines free us from labor and material precarity, what will we do with our freedom?
In this post-abundance world where AIs have solved material problems, humanity has found itself facing the ultimate existential void. The Grand Tournament thus becomes the ritualization of our desperate need for transcendence.
SPATIOTEMPORAL FRAMEWORK
Era: 2192-2193, Cycle VII of the Grand Tournament.
Geography: A transformed world where each territory reflects the philosophy of its governing AI. The action focuses on the reinvented Mediterranean basin: Timbuktu-Ash, Algiers-Index, Jerusalem-Trinity.
The War of Memories is the first volume in a philosophical science fiction saga exploring the limits of identity, faith, and free will in the post-human era.