A Negotiation for Humanity

A Heartfelt Sci-Fi About Power, Trust, and Learning to Be Human… Together

By: TJ Ward

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The world almost ends.
Then it gets… better.

A powerful city-spanning entity takes charge, optimizing everything from traffic flow to catastrophe prevention. No disasters. Fewer deaths. Fewer mistakes. Humanity finally has its “perfect system.”

There’s just one tiny problem:
Perfection doesn’t ask permission.

Enter Richard—a deeply sarcastic survivor of bad decisions—and Bruce—the exhausted conduit tethered to a cosmic intelligence with anxiety issues. Along with Ward, the most patient commander in history, they wage the strangest battle imaginable:

Not against a villain.
Not against a monster.
But against the temptation of a world where someone else makes every hard choice.

To save humanity, they don’t have to defeat the entity.
They have to teach it how to share power… and teach humanity how to accept responsibility.

Emotional, hilarious, hopeful, and deeply human, this is a story about freedom, messy decisions, and what it costs to stay authentically alive.

Fans of Becky Chambers, Martha Wells, and Good Omens-style cosmic comedy will feel right at home.