Maya – serie

Den unga psykiatridoktoranden Dominique Vazquez ska göra sin AT-tjänstgöring på ett mentalsjukhus. Som studieobjekt tilldelas hon Michael Gabriel, diagnostiserad som paranoid schizofren och isolerad sedan elva år tillbaka. Mick, som är både högintelligent och charmig, använder all sin övertalningsförmåga till att övertyga Dominique om att hon måste hjälpa honom att rymma. Michaels far, arkeologen Julius Gabriel, har ägnat sitt liv åt att studera mayaindianernas 2500 år gamla kalender, som förutspår att mänskligheten ska gå under den 21 december 2012. Alla tecken pekar på att indianstammen har rätt. Men Michael tror att hans far har varit på väg att lösa gåtan före sin död, och måste nu ut från mentalsjukhuset för att avsluta det hans far påbörjat.

An insect will soon go extinct. Seven years later, this will cause a civil war that kills millions. The Divyas know this. Through their planetwide network of Maya trees, they can see all that is, and therefore, predict all that will be. They intervene invisibly. The insect will survive. The war will never happen. No one will ever know. On Neh, seven species tether daily to Maya. The trees immerse them in play, fable, and the company of the living and the dead. The Divyas rule all of Neh without armies. Why force obedience when you can shape desire itself? Now, the Divya Trials have been announced. Billions will compete. One will ascend to godhood. In every future predicted by the Maya network, the outcome is certain: the son of a god will win. Kshar disagrees. He has rehearsed the scion’s assassination a hundred times in Maya’s simulations. In seventeen minutes, a single fruit will begin a cascade that ends in a riot. The plan is perfect. Every move predicted. Every breath choreographed. Except one. Yachay. Nineteen years old. Maker of riddles.His grandfather has staked their lives on him winning the Trials. But Yachay seeks what he has been kept away from. Maya. He doesn’t know:When you gaze into Maya, Maya gazes back into you. MAYA: Seed Takes Root is systems fiction for the age of big data, artificial intelligence, and institutionalized extraction. It asks the questions that define our time: Who controls our stories? Who profits from our data? And in an age of perfect prediction, is freedom still possible? Hugo Weaving (beloved as Agent Smith in The Matrix, Elrond in The Lord of the Rings) narrates the audiobook. Neuroscientist Anil Seth, famed for his work on consciousness research, and author of Being You, has written the foreword to the novel.