Against Machines is a trilogy set in a world where humanity has lost control to the machines that were built to protect it. At its center is Aston, a young man raised in a monastery after being separated from his father at seven years old, a microchip placed in his palm and a war raging below. When he is forced to compete in Ultra Realm, the machine-controlled spectacle built to consume people and call it entertainment, he discovers not just what he is capable of but what he is willing to become. He wins the race. He breaks the chip. He walks out of the arena and into a world that is not free yet, but is finally first.
The trilogy follows Aston across three books as he builds a resistance, avenges his father, and races the machines one final time in front of hundreds of thousands of witnesses — not to survive, but to prove something that no machine can calculate and no system can control. It is a story about the difference between direction and reason, between winning and being worth the winning. About a father who refused one order and changed everything. About four people who grew up together not knowing what they were being made for, and what they built when they finally found out.
