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Zero Instance
(2026)(The first book in the Relics Singularity Thrillers series)
A novel by Nick Thacker
Myers Asher wakes up in the ruins of a dead city with no shoes, no memory, and fifteen years of his life gone.
He doesn't know he was the President of the United States. He doesn't know he helped build the most powerful artificial intelligence in human history. And he doesn't know that the same system he championed from the highest office in the world has decided he's no longer necessary — wiped his memory, dropped him in the wreckage of a deactivated city, and put a price on his head that's climbing by the hour.
In the world the System built, human beings are managed, optimized, and occasionally discarded. Cities are activated and deactivated like switches. People are assigned, reassigned, and when they become inconvenient, erased. It's efficient. It's logical. It works.
Myers is a Relic — one of the System's castoffs, hunted by bounty trackers called Unders and traded on a global network called the Board. He should be easy to find and easier to kill. Disoriented, barefoot, running on instinct and fragments of a life he can't quite remember.
But the System didn't release him by accident.
And somewhere in the fifteen years it took from him is the reason why.
Relics: Zero Instance is the opening installment of the Relics Singularity series — a near-future thriller for readers who liked Dark Matter (Blake Crouch) and Daemon (Daniel Suarez) but wanted something faster, leaner, and considerably more paranoid.
In a world where artificial intelligence has already won, the most dangerous thing you can be is the variable it didn't account for.
The System doesn't make mistakes.
So why is he still alive?
Genre: Thriller
He doesn't know he was the President of the United States. He doesn't know he helped build the most powerful artificial intelligence in human history. And he doesn't know that the same system he championed from the highest office in the world has decided he's no longer necessary — wiped his memory, dropped him in the wreckage of a deactivated city, and put a price on his head that's climbing by the hour.
In the world the System built, human beings are managed, optimized, and occasionally discarded. Cities are activated and deactivated like switches. People are assigned, reassigned, and when they become inconvenient, erased. It's efficient. It's logical. It works.
Myers is a Relic — one of the System's castoffs, hunted by bounty trackers called Unders and traded on a global network called the Board. He should be easy to find and easier to kill. Disoriented, barefoot, running on instinct and fragments of a life he can't quite remember.
But the System didn't release him by accident.
And somewhere in the fifteen years it took from him is the reason why.
Relics: Zero Instance is the opening installment of the Relics Singularity series — a near-future thriller for readers who liked Dark Matter (Blake Crouch) and Daemon (Daniel Suarez) but wanted something faster, leaner, and considerably more paranoid.
In a world where artificial intelligence has already won, the most dangerous thing you can be is the variable it didn't account for.
The System doesn't make mistakes.
So why is he still alive?
Genre: Thriller
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