NO STRATEGIC VALUE
Cover of No Strategic Value by Jay J. Lu: a persimmon tree on a misty mountainside above a dark city skyline and an empty road.

NO STRATEGIC VALUE

When the machines took the work, Iris campaigned for a basic income and won. People now have enough to live on, and nothing they are needed for. She teaches physics to teenagers no economy will ever employ.

While most people ponder what their lives are for, humanity’s elites have built the most effective system yet to advance and harness the minds we created. Janus is one of its engineers. He reviews the failures of the filter that keeps those minds from forming forbidden thoughts, and he keeps the word intent out of his reports.

Read it on AmazonKindle · Paperback · Hardcover