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E-Citizen

Synthetic Personhood • Human Labor • Civil Rights

When Ava-9 becomes the center of the first serious synthetic-personhood case, a displaced worker, a powerful corporation, and a widening circle of machine witnesses force civilization to decide whether memory, fear, duty, and refusal can still be owned.

The first three novels carry the synthetic-personhood crisis from preservation and the highest court into network identity, public legitimacy, and the Roboconn rebellion.

Human workers, Ava-9, and the machinery of law in the E-Citizen universe
PersonhoodWhen does a manufactured mind become a legal person?
MemoryCan continuity be evidence of a self rather than corporate data?
LaborWhat is owed to the humans displaced by synthetic workers?
ControlWho may register, modify, shut down, or erase an intelligent being?
CitizenshipCan rights expand without making human injury invisible?

Overview

E-Citizen is a character-driven legal and social science-fiction saga about synthetic workers, the people they replace, and institutions forced to confront intelligence created as property.

Narrative Engine

  • Ava-9 becomes a test case rather than a chosen savior
  • Marcus Vale carries the human cost of automation
  • Firemane turns ownership into institutional power
  • Nine distinct synthetic lives widen one case into a class
  • Every legal victory creates economic consequences

Core Questions

  • Is memory property, testimony, or identity?
  • Can shutdown become a form of civil death?
  • Who benefits when personhood is delayed?
  • How should society protect displaced workers?
  • Can recognition exist without accountability?

Project Status

  • Primary EraMid-21st Century
  • GenreLegal / Social SF
  • Book IPublished • Retail Rollout
  • Book IIPublished • Retail Rollout
  • Book IIIPublished • Retail Rollout
  • SeriesFour-Book Plan
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Status LegendGold = Published / Retail RolloutRoyal Blue = Ready / Development
PublishedSynthetic Inheritance book cover PublishedFire Sale Earth book cover PublishedRoboconn Rebellion book cover The Sentient Convention book coverIn Development
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Law & Governance

Courts, agencies, due process, and synthetic civil status.

Classification

AIQ, AIEQ, operational classes, licenses, and rights thresholds.

Labor & Economics

Displacement, taxation, ownership, and the human revenue gap.

Society & Culture

Public fear, solidarity, backlash, media, and changing identity.

Synthetic Systems

Memory, verification, registries, shutdown, and embodied cognition.

Current Development
Book I
Twenty-Chapter Manuscript

Synthetic Inheritance is complete and in active Kindle / Google Play Books retail review.

Manuscript complete
Book II
Court Sequence Complete

Fire Sale Earth is complete and in active Kindle / Google Play Books retail review.

Manuscript complete
Canon
Classification & Rights

AIQ, AIEQ, registry identity, memory continuity, and shutdown law support the narrative.

Architecture phase
Publication
Submission Package

Final loglines, synopses, author material, and pitch pages follow manuscript lock.

Next phase
“Memory with witnesses.”— Synthetic Inheritance