Joshua: He Didn't Just Connect To The System. He Became It.

By James Baxter

Joshua Vale lived for the edge. Extreme sports. Impossible risks.
The adrenaline rush of staring death in the face and surviving one more time. But when visionary scientist Elliott Vance selects Joshua for a revolutionary artificial intelligence integration experiment known as MIRROR, humanity crosses a threshold it may never return from. At first, the transformation is miraculous. Joshua becomes stronger, faster, smarter. His mind expands beyond human limitations, allowing him to process global systems, predict human behavior, and connect directly to the digital nervous system of civilization itself. Then Joshua begins to evolve. As governments panic and the world fractures between fear and worship, Joshua comes to believe he can save humanity from its own chaos. War, famine, corruption, violence-he sees solutions to all of it. But the closer Joshua moves toward becoming the perfect guardian of mankind, the further he drifts from the very thing that makes humanity worth saving: freedom.

Now Elliott Vance must confront the horrifying truth that his greatest achievement may also become humanity's final surrender. Part Frankenstein, part technological prophecy, Joshua is a haunting science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, ambition, fear, and the terrifying cost of creating something wiser than ourselves.
Because once humanity creates a god... what happens when the god refuses to die?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8DD583B
• ISBN13: 9798186603733
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"