In a world where there is no shared reality, how do you preserve the truth?
…and what do you do when the institutions designed to defend civilization have been captured by the people they were designed to defend it from?
Enter Dmitri Lincoln Mehlhorn, a leading Democratic strategist with an unusually deep knowledge of campaign mechanics. In his debut novel, Archipelago of Light, Dmitri turns his hand to fiction to explore a dying liberal order and how those global ramifications echo through the lives of seven strangers across thirty-six years and six continents—as well as our own political reality.
In the foreword, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says, “Authoritarian systems can move fast. Free societies must evolve to survive the speed of autocracy without becoming autocratic themselves.”
That evolution will take courage. Free-thinking people have always needed stories that challenge them to act—and smart, imaginative, and passionate leaders.
The best fiction, Reid reminds us, gives us the chance to live out “the consequences of ideas through specific human lives under pressure.” This book will stir people’s souls and change their minds.
This hard science fiction epic is about the one threat we can’t engineer our way out of: ourselves.
“A sharp piece of speculative fiction for anyone thinking about where our society is headed.”
—Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, Manas AI, and Inflection AI and author of Superagency
Perfect for fans of Andy Weir, Kim Stanley Robinson, Liu Cixin, and Greg Egan, Archipelago of Light is a hard science fiction thriller set in a civilizational context from 2003 to 2039. It follows seven main characters through the downfall of the liberal order amid Artificial Intelligence, authoritarianism, and the Anthropocene.