The machines were never the threat. We were.
By 2026, artificial intelligence has already begun quietly reshaping the world - not through rebellion, but through the same old human failures: greed, fear, and the desperate scramble to stay on top when the ground starts shifting. Over the next two decades, four people will watch that shift become something no one can stop.
Marcus Voss builds a lunar program while a hidden network of the world's wealthiest people quietly engineers the unrest that will let them survive what's coming - and eliminate everyone who can't. Priya Nair reaches for the stars and finds herself holding the last steady place left in a solar system tearing itself apart. Tom Ashford, displaced by the very automation he once fought, uncovers something buried in the Egyptian desert that suggests humanity has been here before - and lost. And Claire Whitmore, the woman who built the machinery of that unrest with her own hands, has to decide what she owes the world she helped break.
The Cutover is a near-future novel about the decade the future finally arrived - and the humans who never learned to deserve it.