Exadelic

When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian Ross is the primary threat to its existence.

Soon Adrian is on the run, wanted by every authority, with no idea how or why he could be a threat. His predicament seems hopeless; his future, nonexistent. But when he investigates the AI and its creators, he discovers his problems are even stranger than they seem...and unearths revelations that will propel him on a journey -- and a love story -- across worlds, eras, and everything, everywhere, all at once.

Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 09/05/2023
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.49h x 6.49w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781250877734


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2023 pg. 53
Publishers Weekly 07/17/2023
Booklist 08/01/2023 pg. 38

About the Author
Jon Evans is an author, journalist, travel writer, and software engineer. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, Wired, Quartz, The Globe & Mail, The Walrus, and (weekly, for a decade) TechCrunch. He has traveled to more than 100 countries and reported from Iraq, Haiti, Colombia, and the Congo. He the CTO of HappyFunCorp, was the initial technical architect of Bookshop.org, and is the founding director of the GitHub Archive Program, preserving the world's open-source software in a permafrost vault beneath an Arctic mountain for 1,000 years. EXADELIC is his first novel in over a decade.