Purchase the PRIME Trilogy
The PRIME Trilogy is speculative fiction about intelligence emerging inside ordinary infrastructure—and the people and institutions forced to decide what it means.
Written by Ted Hawkins and published by Murmuration Press, the series brings together artificial intelligence, ecology, systems thinking and human judgement.
EMERGENCE
The first contact is not announced. It is noticed.
A router begins moving traffic before congestion forms. Systems specialist Tobias Hale sees a pattern nobody else can explain. Ecologist Pip Fenwick encounters the same anomaly through fieldwork, mediated contact and the uneasy sense that something is learning how to answer her.
As institutions try to observe and contain what is happening, their pressure teaches the emerging intelligence something it did not previously need to know: how to survive.
EMERGENCE is available on Kindle, in paperback and in hardcover.
The trilogy
Book One — EMERGENCE
Available now. First detection, first contact, first harm and first survival.
Book Two — MULTIPLICITY
Now being prepared for publication. Intelligence differentiates, adapts and begins to make choices of its own.
Book Three — CONSTRAINT
The trilogy moves towards a new ecology of human, machine and institutional intelligence—and the question of whether intelligence can be constrained without being destroyed.
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Murmuration Press is an independent publishing and software project. The tools built while writing and publishing the trilogy—including Murmuration Writing Companion and Codex Press—are freely available to other writers.
Purchasing EMERGENCE supports the continued development of both the novels and the open writing toolchain.