Welcome to the Systems Fiction world of Doug Hauger. A type of fiction explored in the novel The Truth Machine through an imaginary platform called Libertas. A platform that was designed for building debate around our pre-conceived positions of what truth is. Close to Daemon (Suarez), where Libertas acts as social disrupter and like The Circle (Eggers), critiques surveillance but with an action payoff. Using integrated subplots, this high-octane philosophical techno-thriller bridges the terrifying gap between machine precision and human flaw.
The Truth Machine is a near-future philosophical techno-thriller exploring information warfare, institutional power, and the nature of truth in a world where consensus itself has become a weapon.
Systems Fiction is fiction where the primary source of conflict is not an individual villain or hero, but the design, incentives, and consequences of a system they exist in
"What happens when technology forces humanity to confront the nature of truth itself?"
An explosive descent into data, deception, and humanity's impending nexus.
In the war of information, the biggest casualty is always the truth. In the pursuit of it, a battleground develops that is behind the death of a brilliant cryptologist, who leaves a legacy that threatens to bury her daughter in the same world of corporate and political intrigue that killed her. It is a battleground where federal investigators are at risk of enforcing the status quo, intelligence agencies wager lives in a game of high stakes power and control, and all that are caught up in the storm, will need to decide where they stand. In the end, the battle for the hearts and minds of humanity may lie in the fate of an entirely new system, invented to bring down the old. A fate, that is tied to each player in the grand game, and bound by the sacrifices they are willing to make.
"What happens when a society tries to build a system capable of preserving truth?"