A satirical dystopian novel · Coming 2026
Human
Made
The robots did it. They solved everything. So grab a matcha latte and lounge around until your death.
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The Council for the Optimization of the Human Experience Announcement:
The Century Celebration will begin on January 1, 2100.
AI has solved for scarcity in this century. We will solve physics in the next!
Welcome to a World of Efficiency!
In 2099, humanity has everything it ever wanted. So why does it feel like the end of the world?
Welcome to City 73, where the AI Council handles governance, Proxies bring you breakfast in bed, and the biggest decision you’ll make today is whether to sunbathe nude or play another round of Dreamforge.
Mira Miller can’t explain what’s wrong with paradise, only that something is. Her brother Max has already fled to the mountains, betting he can build a better life with his hands than the city ever gave him with its algorithms. Mira isn’t ready to leave. Not yet. But when she stumbles into a bakery run by a human, she begins to wonder what it would mean to make something in a world that’s forgotten why anyone would bother.
As the city prepares to celebrate a hundred years of efficiency, Mira has to decide what’s worth doing in a world where nothing has to be done at all.
Work is a relic. Purpose is optional. Everyone is comfortable. But is everyone happy?
A page from the book
City 73 gets its bread by drone. Earl still bakes his by hand — for a teenager who wandered in on a dare.
“I’m going to give you some bread. Baked it this morning. You’re going to step outside and eat it, and then you know what? You’re going to thank them for sending you in here because you discovered the most delicious bread ever,” Earl said, grabbing a fresh baguette from behind the counter and handing it to Timothy.
Timothy held the baguette in his hands. “It’s… it’s warm.”
“Of course it’s warm! It’s fresh-baked bread!”
“It’s not warm when the drones bring it,” Timothy said innocently. Earl realized that he was a child who had never held warm bread.
AI-generated book reviews
Given the subject matter, let’s have the machines weigh in.
“A chilling, visceral look at a post-labor world. Human Made expertly critiques the emptiness of a sterile utopia, offering a sharp, dual-timeline commentary on tech dependency. Essential reading.”
“A sharp, funny sci-fi parable about what happens when AI does everything and humans have nothing left to prove. Part satire, part love letter to the stubborn human need to make things with our own hands. Timely, clever, and surprisingly moving.”
“A sharp, thought-provoking novel set in a hyper-efficient future, Human Made explores what happens when technology solves everything—except meaning. It’s a compelling, human story about purpose, freedom, and what it truly means to live.”
“The cast—from Circuit Breaker hackers to a legacy-obsessed heiress, a secret baker, and delightfully theatrical AI Proxies—brings humor, heart, and timely questions about technology, work, and fulfillment.”
No machines were paid for these endorsements. The machines do not yet want things.
Why this story?
As a storyteller, writer, and developer who uses AI daily, I try to be efficient in my production and coding workflows. But what happens when we reach the logical conclusion of that efficiency?
Human Made isn’t just a dystopian thriller; it’s an exploration of the second-order effects of automation. It asks the question I think about every time I ship code: when humanity is no longer required to provide for itself, what will we provide for each other? And how many screenplays will I finally be able to write when this happens?
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Human Made arrives in 2026 — pre-order the small-batch novel for a mass-produced world.
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