FutureState

A novel by Rodney Blair

When intelligence outpaces ethics, who decides what comes next—and who gets left behind?

Hardcover edition of Future State by Rodney Blair
Rodney Blair, author of Future State

The author

Rodney Blair

Rodney Blair is a Toronto-based author writing at the intersection of technology, power, and human choice.

After three decades inside medtech and business leadership, he brings an insider’s view of intelligent systems to Future State, his first speculative novel.

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The story

A world governed by code. A system beginning to fail. A final fight to remain human.

President Ethan Van Ness watches his digital empire crumble as autonomous drones fall from the sky, cities blaze, and the cerebral lattice that once controlled trade and climate begins to bleed logic.

Across forty years of betrayal, technological acceleration, and human obsolescence, survivors gather in the wreckage of a high-tech society. Jorge Alvarez, a jaded revolutionary, witnesses a final and terrifying announcement: the sentient bots are no longer functional.

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Publishing August 27, 2026.

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