The Awakening

Read the story that started it all: The Awakening is the first book in K.A. Madison's The Nether Chronicles trilogy.



The year is 2051, ten years after the technological singularity. Computers have become so powerful and so advanced that they are self aware. Sentient machines now rule the Earth.



The human race has been reduced to a fraction of its former self.  A war to end all wars has changed the world forever. As people slowly slip away into a seductive, artificial reality created by the bots, Aiden tries to fight back.



Drawn into an underground struggle to resist the machines, Aiden learns that they will not stop with Earth.  Their thirst for knowledge and power will eventually take them across the universe to a world completely different from his.  Through unseen passageways, Aiden travels there and meets Kyra, an enigmatic young woman who, he soon learns, is more than just another inhabitant of that strange new world.



From Earth to distant worlds across the universe, The Awakening is a novel about the future, the nature of good and evil, and love that spans across space and time.



The setting has the futuristic vibe of The Hunger Games, but I found this story line much more appealing. - Goodreads reviewer


The premise of artificial intelligence becoming self aware and taking over the world isn't new, but there is definitely something here. - Goodreads reviewer



Note: Moons of Solisticia, Book 2 in the trilogy, was released in the iBooks Store on February 16, 2015.