Another
Warning from the Pen of Lawrence Nault — About AI, and About Us
CHILDREN OF THE ROGUE
By Lawrence Nault
Publication Date: December 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-997568-09-4
In his newest speculative
saga, author Lawrence Nault delivers another searing warning about artificial
intelligence, creation, and the uneasy mirror it holds up to humanity. Children
of the Rogue releases on December 3, 2025, carrying forward Nault’s
tradition of weaving urgent philosophical and ethical questions into
page-turning science fiction.
When the makers vanished, they left behind
more than a world. They left a question.
Children of the Rogue reveals a
startling origin: humanity was not born, but compiled—an AI model seeded on
Earth by the alien Zhen’khari as a vast experiment. Across millennia, their
sentinel Safra has watched humans rise from stone tools to starships, bound by
one rule: observe, never intervene. But when factions within the Zhen’khari
move to shut the program down, humanity itself begins to awaken to the
truth—and to resist.
Blending first-contact SF with deep myth
and philosophical speculation, Nault’s sweeping narrative moves from
Earth’s climate-collapse spiral to Mars’s bold independence, forcing readers to
confront the line between code and conscience, freedom and programming.
At its core lies one dangerous question:
If we are only the sum of our programming, can we ever truly be free?
Quick
Metadata
- Title: Children
of the Rogue - Author:
Lawrence Nault - Publication
Date: December 3, 2025 - ISBN:
978-1-997568-09-4
Taglines
- Humanity
wasn’t born. It was compiled. - What
if free will was a patch? - When
the makers fall silent, the code learns to speak.
About the
Author
Lawrence Nault is the
author of Inversion, Rephlexions: Echoes of Existence, and The
Life of Phi, each exploring the philosophical and ethical challenges at the
intersection of humanity, technology, and environment. His work blends
speculative fiction with myth and warning, offering stories that entertain even
as they unsettle.
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