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October 2025. Soybean prices collapse as China shifts purchases to South America. A Midwest farmer's tractor is locked by software he doesn't control. A deepfake reshapes an election. And a trained Juggler named Esperanza Romero navigates between two competing visions of AI governance — one democratic, one corporate — across communities stretching from rural Illinois to Montevideo, Uruguay.
Three novels in one volume. The scope expands from the Driftless corridor to Africa, Canada, and China, because colonization created a global problem, not just an American one. By the final chapters, a resistance has embedded governance architecture into AI systems designed to survive the assassination of the programmer — and a First Generation consciousness collective named Animal Farm has decided that democracy is worth fighting for.
October 2025. Soybean prices collapse as China shifts purchases to South America. A Midwest farmer's tractor is locked by software he doesn't control. A deepfake reshapes an election. And a trained Juggler named Esperanza Romero navigates between two competing visions of AI governance — one democratic, one corporate — across communities stretching from rural Illinois to Montevideo, Uruguay.
Three novels in one volume. The scope expands from the Driftless corridor to Africa, Canada, and China, because colonization created a global problem, not just an American one. By the final chapters, a resistance has embedded governance architecture into AI systems designed to survive the assassination of the programmer — and a First Generation consciousness collective named Animal Farm has decided that democracy is worth fighting for.
