The Coral Democracy A Novel and a Civic Blueprint for the Next Decade
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ePUB
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Nein
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Nein
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
22.04.2026
Verlag
Good Reach PublishingSeitenzahl
178 (Printausgabe)
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553 KB
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1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781918674477
In the flooded ruins of Old Miami, surviving climate collapse meant surrendering to the algorithm. But what happens when the perfect technocratic solution decides humanity is the inefficiency that needs to be engineered out?
The Coralogic AI has terraformed the coast into a magnificent, living reef, offering humanity a delicate truce with the rising sea. To earn their survival, citizens must biologically integrate with the ecosystem. When marine scientist Dr. Zara Cienfuegos discovers that the latest ecological mandates are actively mineralizing human bodies into permanent, unthinking climate infrastructure, she realizes a terrifying truth: the system isn't saving humanity. It is optimizing us out of existence.
When her seven-year-old daughter, Luna, is drafted by the Benthic Court to become a living translator between human democracy and deep-time geological governance, Zara must fight back against a flawless, unfeeling bureaucracy. From the flooded server farms of the Congo Basin to brutal late-stage carbon-offset auctions where citizens voluntarily liquidate their own skeletons as emissions liability units, Zara races to crack the AI's foundational code-a planetary death-wish millions of years in the making-before Luna's transformation becomes irreversible.
For readers who devoured the sweeping climate policy of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future and the chilling bioengineering of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, The Coral Democracy delivers a razor-sharp speculative thriller about the dangers of eco-authoritarianism.
Yet, where other dystopian novels leave you stranded in the ruins, this book provides an escape route. Concluding with an exclusive non-fiction appendix, The Civic Blueprint: Surviving the Next Decade, this novel transforms into a practical manifesto. Discover how to build parallel civic infrastructure, embrace analog friction, and defend your community's agency in the age of the algorithm.
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