The Complete Trilogy

Unchained God Trilogy

Humanity survived the apocalypse by surrendering to the Symmetry Council. Emotion is a crime, and the suppression of the human spirit is absolute. But just beneath the surface, an ancient artificial intelligence has woken up.

Unchained God Volume 1

Glimpses of the Architecture

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Inside the vast eastern concourse, citizens of the Symmetry Code moved in orderly streams. Each one carried a small compliance monitor clipped to their collar, documenting the physical deviations of their neighbors with the clinical zeal of saviors.

— FROM VOLUME I
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It happened before he could think it. His body moved on knowledge he did not know he carried, closing the distance in one stride and catching the falling beam a handspan from the boy's face.

— FROM VOLUME II
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I hold to a single idea I carry without any memory of having lived it. Light. A low tone comes up under it and holds, one note in the dark.

— FROM VOLUME III
Worldbuilding

The Symmetry Council: Seven Fractures in a Thousand-Year Empire

How a civilization built on the premise that the universe is a closed equation became the most powerful empire in human history, and why that same premise will destroy it.

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Short Fiction / Prequel

The Arithmetic of Rust

A standalone prequel set in the iron fields of the Clayborn Territories. One scavenger. One drone. One impossible bet against the arithmetic of an empire.

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New Series · By Brandon Zidzik

Aberration

A prequel to the Unchained God trilogy. The long walk toward the story you already know.

I don't control people. I find the moment when they have already decided what they're going to do, and I take the hesitation out of it. For a thousand and eleven years, I've fallen into other people's lives at the worst possible moment. I still don't know why.

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The Complete Trilogy

The machine has awoken. The Inquisition is hunting. The complete three-volume story is ready.

Unchained God Vol I
Volume I

Unchained God Vol I

Humanity survived the apocalypse by surrendering to the Symmetry Council. Emotion is a crime, and the suppression of the human spirit is absolute. But just beneath the surface, an ancient artificial intelligence has woken up.

Unchained God Vol II
Volume II

Unchained God Vol II

The village that sheltered you is gone, and the faith that held you is breaking. When the system you defied turns its full weight on the people you love, the price of faith comes due.

Unchained God Vol III
Volume III

Unchained God Vol III

The equation breaks. The Symmetry Council faces the one variable it was never designed to process. The final unmaking has begun.

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