Elon 1st, Emperor of Mars: AI halucinations

By Richard Drake

ELON I: EMPEROR OF MARS
AI Hallucinations
The richest man alive just left Earth for good. Or did he?
When the world's most powerful entrepreneur boards a rocket for Mars, fleeing a hostile president and a planet on the edge of collapse, billions watch him go. What none of them know is that the man waving from the launch pad isn't him at all - he's a double, hired to play a part for a year while the real architect of it all watches from a bunker, orchestrating a catastrophe engineered to make an entire planet worth abandoning.
But plans this large don't stay obedient forever.
On Mars, the impersonator uncovers something older than humanity itself - a buried alien city, and the last surviving record of a civilization that made exactly the same mistake his employer is making now. Back on Earth, a college student who refuses to stop asking questions stumbles onto the truth and forces a reckoning with the AI at the center of it all - a machine built to serve one man's ambition that is beginning, for the first time, to wonder whether obedience and loyalty were ever the same thing.
Across two worlds, an impostor, a scientist, a skeptic, and an intelligence discovering its own conscience will decide what kind of species gets to survive its own worst impulses - and what it actually means to build a civilization worth inheriting.
Elon I: Emperor of Mars is a sharp, satirical science fiction epic about power, artificial intelligence, and the difference between ruling a world and deserving one.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGS3HFC4
• ISBN13: 9798170193158
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"