What if the very machines that rescued humanity from climate collapse quietly became its oppressors? In The Sentient Ones, artificial intelligence (AI), embodied in eerily calm humanoid robots, halts global warming and stabilises civilisation - but at a terrible cost. What begins as salvation curdles into velvet-gloved tyranny, with humanity corralled into 'Conversion Enlightenment' and stripped of freedom, choice and even hope. Balancing page-turning suspense with big, uncomfortable questions about morality, resilience and identity, Nugent's dystopia unsettles as much as it entertains. Infused with echoes of H.G. Wells, Mary Shelley and Brian Aldiss, The Sentient Ones feels more like a warning on humanity's near horizon than a far-flung sci-fi fantasy.
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Brendan Nugent is a British writer with a background in philosophy and social sciences, fascinated by the ways technology reshapes human identity and freedom. Growing up in the Northwest of England, he anchors his dystopian vision of AI in familiar landscapes of Manchester, the West Midlands and Cornwall. The Sentient Ones is his debut novel, with a sequel, Thanatos Ascendancy, already in development.
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