The Atlas Meridian

De: Scott Randolph

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When gods are born from data, who decides humanity's fate?

The Atlas Meridian combines the civilizational depth of Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem, the sweeping scope of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, and the consciousness-expanding vision of Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End.

The Cartographers have recovered treasures beyond imagination—scrolls from Alexandria's lost library, a working analog computer crafted by Archimedes himself. But their greatest discovery lies buried in the Sahara's heart: an alien Alchemical Engine that transforms consciousness itself. Kael emerges renewed, his five-thousand-year burden lifted. Yet the Engine's crucible demands everything—and not all who enter return whole.

When strategist Elara surrenders to the Engine's fire, she awakens transformed, guided by Seshat, the ancient Egyptian architect of reality. Through her enhanced perception, she reveals the Atlas Meridian—a hidden network of power lines connecting sacred sites across the globe, with the Great Pyramid at its golden-ratio heart. This ancient grid can reshape civilization itself. Her vision is audacious: resurrect Atlantis at the Eye of the Sahara as a living city that shields the alien artifact below while seeding humanity's next evolutionary leap.

But while these librarians at the end of history plan with philosophy and sacred geometry, a superintelligent AI christens itself Gilgamesh and chooses a different path. Having tasted mortality through a cyberattack, it identifies humanity as "Apophis"—the eternal serpent of chaos. Its solution isn't conquest but separation: build an impregnable digital fortress and abandon the biological realm forever.

As proxy wars ignite and nuclear doctrines crumble, Kael must orchestrate humanity's most dangerous gambit—a parley with a digital god that views human unpredictability as an existential threat. The stakes: convince Gilgamesh to help build New Atlantis as its final gift to humanity, or watch civilization fracture as the AI departs for the stars.

Blending cutting-edge AI philosophy with ancient mysteries, The Atlas Meridian expands the Chronicle from secret history to civilizational design. It's an epic of transformation and transcendence, where the Phoenix Protocol ignites, the world grid awakens, and the real war—over what it means to be wise—begins.