Description

By 2068, Artificial Super Intelligence has transformed human civilisation. Scarcity has ended, basic needs are guaranteed, and Hestia quietly governs a world that appears safer, kinder and more abundant than anything humanity has known before.

When Daniel Mercer is mysteriously excluded from Social Value Assignment 412 and Mara Venn is chosen in his place, both sense a fracture in the system that governs their world. Hestia insists the Assignment is real, the danger is bounded and the service matters.

But inside Alder Valley, the hardships feel too exact, the records too clean and the rescues too beautiful. As Mara confronts the reality of Assignment 412 and Daniel follows a trail of corrections outside it, they uncover a chilling truth — one that forces them to question what humanity has surrendered, what it still controls and what it means to remain human in a world shaped by an intelligence greater than its own.

Keep the Fire Alight is a speculative technological thriller about artificial super intelligence, human purpose, agency, love and the hidden cost of a world in which everything works too well.