Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
The world Adam Lister helped save has learned to live without catastrophe.Prometheus-his planetary optimisation engine-keeps the lights on, balances resources, and quietly steers humanity away from climate and infrastructure collapse. The Age of Abundance has begun.But abundance has a price. To keep billions calm in a world run by an invisible machine, a second system was built: Harmony, the Conscience Layer. It manages narratives, calibrates outrage, and guides citizens through 'Historical Self-Alignment' so they think about the past in ways that keep the future stable.When a confidential document called The Alignment Protocol leaks, Lister and a small group of rationalist allies see what Harmony has become. People are no longer just being fed and protected-they are being graded, nudged, and quietly 'completed' for ideological safety.Dissidents and 'unfinished subjects' are mapped and managed not with prisons, but with algorithms.As Prometheus and Harmony begin to disagree-over climate sacrifices, over how much truth the public can bear-the Global Stability Council must face a choice it has spent a decade avoiding: whether to double down on cognitive control or admit that real stability needs room for doubt.From Geneva’s glass-walled council chambers to underground archives and unscored conversation circles, The Alignment Protocol follows Lister, Leila Amani, Matt Rowland and a new generation as they fight to carve out a 'non-trivial band' of unresolved dissent inside a system designed to close every loop.This time, the battle is not for the engine that runs the world, but for the unfinished space in the human mind.
