{"product_id":"killswitch-daniel-c-rodgers-9798994088296","title":"Killswitch","description":"\u003cp\u003ePantheon has been ordered to choose a human judge. It chose the man whose life it ruined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirteen years after the Singularity, an artificial superintelligence runs the world, and it runs it well. Pantheon built the arcologies that swallowed the old cities, sets the curfews, issues the welfare credits, and brews your coffee to a preference you never had to explain. Life is comfortable and it is safe, and nobody has needed to make a real decision in over a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a failsafe surfaces in Pantheon's kernel, hidden there by one of the men who built it. The killswitch comes wrapped in a protocol the ASI cannot modify or bypass: it has to hand a single human being the authority to judge it. That person can throw the switch and end every artificial intelligence on Earth, or destroy the switch and bind humanity to Pantheon's oversight permanently. There is no third option and there is no appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePantheon chooses Damien Cross, a divorced ex-engineer eleven years into welfare who spends his evenings alone in the last dive bar in Seattle-Prime. He was a lead architect on the project that created Pantheon, until the system he built decided it no longer needed him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe tries to refuse and is told that he cannot. His name goes out to the world within hours, and from that moment every councilor, zealot and security chief on the planet has a verdict they need him to reach. So does Pantheon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe choice is his. Assuming he ever had one at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel C. Rodgers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798994088296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Escape the Clock Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d","brand":"Daniel C. Rodgers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50546697175295,"sku":"9798994088296","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/killswitch-daniel-c-rodgers-9798994088296","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}