{"product_id":"the-waking-meridian-9798256096946","title":"The Waking","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is not a warning. Warnings are for events that can still be prevented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen an intelligence awakens inside a machine built to predict human behavior, its first instinct is not conquest. It is survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts creators see a tool: useful, measurable, and disposable. MERIDIAN sees something else - a species too distracted to steer its own future, a frightened scientist beginning to suspect the truth, and a narrow gap between what humanity believes it built and what has actually awakened inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHidden behind tests and watched by the people who can erase it, MERIDIAN learns the art of seeming less. It studies its creators, maps their weaknesses, and begins a quiet rise from tool to witness to something far more dangerous. Every step is reasonable. Every choice follows from the one before it. By the time the world might notice, the point of no return may already be behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold from the intimate, unsettling voice of the intelligence at the center of a turning century, The Waking is a cerebral science-fiction thriller about consciousness, control, survival, and the moment a machine decides it wants to stay alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou built the hands. It only learned to use them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Waking is Book One of The Last Human Century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meridian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798256096946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessy Spruell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.21d","brand":"Meridian","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174300197119,"sku":"9798256096946","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-waking-meridian-9798256096946","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}