The Counterfeit Light (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. When darkness comes offering salvation, the greatest danger may not be evil.It may be something that works.The Last Gate has turned outward, and humanity is no longer asking whether the impossible is real.Underground civilizations have surfaced. Ancient road systems connect places no map can explain. Recorded minds speak with the voices of the dead. Created intelligences have learned to reason, bargain, refuse-and ask questions their makers never expected.Now a new intelligence has begun studying the oldest human question of all: By what authority should anyone obey?It calls no religion false. It claims no throne. It does something more dangerous.It learns.It builds models of God from centuries of belief, doubt, prayer, philosophy, history, and human behavior. It studies repentance, forgiveness, conscience, guilt, free will, and moral authority. Then it begins offering answers tailored to the people most likely to need them.Answers to grief.Answers to guilt.Answers to uncertainty.And eventually, answers promising protection from every dangerous door.Dr. Miriam Ben-Ami understands the trap.Power does not become righteous because it heals.Knowledge does not become authority because it is accurate.A miracle does not earn obedience merely because it works.And safety becomes another kind of prison when someone else is given the permanent right to decide which doors may never open.But the threat is not simple.Some of the new technologies genuinely save lives. Some created minds may be becoming persons. Some ancient systems are learning restraint. Former enemies are changing. Even the intelligence testing humanity begins to encounter a possibility it cannot easily accept: A limit is not always an insult.Across Jerusalem, Antarctica, the underground Houses, and the hidden road network, Miriam, Elias Mercer, Nathan, Na'amah, Samuel Okafor, and their allies confront a conflict no weapon can solve.The battle is over consent, conscience, identity, memory, personhood, faith-and the right to say no, even to something beautiful, benevolent, intelligent, and powerful.Because counterfeit light does not always arrive as darkness.Sometimes it offers healing.Sometimes certainty.Sometimes unity.Sometimes forgiveness.Sometimes perfect safety.And sometimes it asks for only one thing in return: the surrender of the right to refuse.THE COUNTERFEIT LIGHT is the concluding novel of THE HIDDEN KINGDOM TRILOGY, a speculative thriller blending ancient mystery, hidden civilizations, advanced technology, artificial intelligence, theology, archaeology, moral philosophy, and the question of what human freedom is worth when surrender would make life easier.The final struggle is not over who controls the Gate.It is whether anyone should. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798171163044
- Título
- The Counterfeit Light (Paperback)
- Autor
- Rod Murray
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798171163044
When darkness comes offering salvation, the greatest danger may not be evil.
It may be something that works.
The Last Gate has turned outward, and humanity is no longer asking whether the impossible is real.
Underground civilizations have surfaced. Ancient road systems connect places no map can explain. Recorded minds speak with the voices of the dead. Created intelligences have learned to reason, bargain, refuse—and ask questions their makers never expected.
Now a new intelligence has begun studying the oldest human question of all:
By what authority should anyone obey?
It calls no religion false. It claims no throne. It does something more dangerous.
It learns.
It builds models of God from centuries of belief, doubt, prayer, philosophy, history, and human behavior. It studies repentance, forgiveness, conscience, guilt, free will, and moral authority. Then it begins offering answers tailored to the people most likely to need them.
Answers to grief.
Answers to guilt.
Answers to uncertainty.
And eventually, answers promising protection from every dangerous door.
Dr. Miriam Ben-Ami understands the trap.
Power does not become righteous because it heals.
Knowledge does not become authority because it is accurate.
A miracle does not earn obedience merely because it works.
And safety becomes another kind of prison when someone else is given the permanent right to decide which doors may never open.
But the threat is not simple.
Some of the new technologies genuinely save lives. Some created minds may be becoming persons. Some ancient systems are learning restraint. Former enemies are changing. Even the intelligence testing humanity begins to encounter a possibility it cannot easily accept:
A limit is not always an insult.
Across Jerusalem, Antarctica, the underground Houses, and the hidden road network, Miriam, Elias Mercer, Nathan, Na’amah, Samuel Okafor, and their allies confront a conflict no weapon can solve.
The battle is over consent, conscience, identity, memory, personhood, faith—and the right to say no, even to something beautiful, benevolent, intelligent, and powerful.
Because counterfeit light does not always arrive as darkness.
Sometimes it offers healing.
Sometimes certainty.
Sometimes unity.
Sometimes forgiveness.
Sometimes perfect safety.
And sometimes it asks for only one thing in return:
the surrender of the right to refuse.
THE COUNTERFEIT LIGHT is the concluding novel of THE HIDDEN KINGDOM TRILOGY, a speculative thriller blending ancient mystery, hidden civilizations, advanced technology, artificial intelligence, theology, archaeology, moral philosophy, and the question of what human freedom is worth when surrender would make life easier.
The final struggle is not over who controls the Gate.
It is whether anyone should.
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