Exadelic by Jon Evans

When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial
intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls black magic," it learns how to
hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to
bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian
Ross is the primary threat to its existence.
Soon Adrian is on the run, wanted by every authority, with no idea how or why
he could be a threat. His predicament seems hopeless; his future,
nonexistent. But when he investigates the AI and its creators, he discovers his
problems are even stranger than they seem. . . and unearths revelations that
will propel him on a journey - and a love story - across worlds, eras, and
everything, everywhere, all at once.
Jon Evans seems to spend most of his time backpacking in places
(Zimbabwe, the Balkans, Iraq) that even the most intrepid of us tend to avoid.
Evans also finds time to write strong, politically motivated thrillers." - Chicago
Tribune
"Thought-provoking . . . Mr Evans shows great potential." - The Economist

Jon Evans is an author, journalist, travel writer, and software engineer. Born
to an expatriate Rhodesian father and Canadian mother, Evans grew up in
Waterloo, Ontario and graduated from the University of Waterloo. His
journalism has appeared in The Guardian, Wired, Quartz, The Globe & Mail,
The Walrus, and (weekly, for a decade) TechCrunch . He has traveled to more
than 100 countries and reported from Iraq, Haiti, Colombia, and the Congo.
He the CTO of HappyFunCorp, was the initial technical architect of Bookshop.
org, and is the founding director of the GitHub Archive Program, preserving
the world's open-source software in a permafrost vault beneath an Arctic
mountain for 1,000 years. Exadelic is his first novel in over a decade.

Tor
On Sale: Sep 5/23
6.12 x 9.25 • 448 pages
9781250877734 • $39.99 • CL - With dust jacket
Fiction / Science Fiction / Time Travel