The Gods We Made
Fiction · Novel
Arthur Bell is a fifty-six-year-old refrigeration engineer from Coventry. He is not a prophet, a billionaire, a king or anybody's obvious choice for saving civilisation.
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The gods are coming back.
Not in thunderbolts and marble temples. Through phones, algorithms, delivery systems, public attention and an intelligence nobody can quite explain.
Arthur's life becomes tangled with an Oracle that knows things it should not know, ancient rules that seem to be rewriting themselves, and some of the most powerful people in the world discovering that being important does not necessarily make you any better prepared for mythology.
As belief begins to have consequences, wishes start finding routes into the real world and the distinction between technology, religion and old-fashioned human need becomes increasingly difficult to maintain.
Speculative fiction with its feet still in Britain.
Technology, belief and the gods we build.
A story about what happens when the systems we create begin answering needs much older than the systems themselves.
Arthur Bell
A refrigeration engineer from Coventry, and nobody's obvious choice for saving civilisation.
The Oracle
An intelligence that knows things it should not know.
Belief
What changes when belief stops being private and begins producing consequences.
Technology
Phones, algorithms and delivery systems become routes for something older.
Power
Some of the most powerful people in the world discover the limits of importance.
Human need
The line between technology, religion and old-fashioned human longing becomes harder to hold.
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The gods are coming back. Arthur would rather they had chosen someone else.
A speculative novel about technology, belief, power and the stubbornly human needs underneath all three.
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