ACME Book Company is an independent fiction imprint. We publish novels that stand on their own, then let the worlds inside them grow: companion sites, games, special editions and live events, each one added only when the story has earned it.
A novel by Don Calvin Dhabolt
By 2059, artificial intelligence doesn’t rule the world. It simply keeps it running.
AURA coordinates everything people depend on: medicine, transit, money, energy, emergency response. It rarely fails, and nobody remembers how to live without it. When Myra Kline, a former systems auditor, finds a contradiction in the flawless record of her mentor’s death, she starts to suspect something worse than a broken machine. Nothing failed. Every record authenticates. And that may be the problem.
A near-future technological thriller about trust, dependence and the freedom people give away one convenience at a time. About 150,000 words.
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Evelyn Venn dies.
At first, nothing in the apartment reports a failure.
The kettle has already reduced itself to holding temperature. The western glass has darkened against the late-afternoon glare.
Everything is working.
A series by DC Davies
After two neural catastrophes, a cataloged subject becomes the breach in a city built to govern thought.
Book Two: What was buried is beginning to breathe.
A dystopian techno-thriller series planned at twelve books. Each novel stands on its own; together they open onto a larger world, with paired games in development and a live alternate-reality event set in the same universe.
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2059: The Comfortable Cage Kindle and paperback release.
Contagion, ConOps21 Book 3.
2059 merchandise for the holidays, and first details of the Unabridged Special Edition.
Counterstrike, ConOps21 Book 4.
2059: The Comfortable Cage, Unabridged Special Edition, with an optional replica of Evelyn Venn’s notebook.
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