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In 2065, the system works. The trains run. The records reconcile. The models update. Every route, token, allocation, and authorization is processed through a system built to optimize human life at scale. That is the problem.

As the official records remain coherent, the lived world has slipped outside what the system can represent. People without the right category become difficult to protect. Places without the right record become difficult to prove. Decisions made correctly begin producing consequences no one can name without becoming responsible for them.

The Boundary Token is a dystopian science-fiction novel about artificial intelligence, abundance, scarcity, and the human work that remains when every available answer is formally correct and still not true.


ISBN-13979-8-9968274-1-1
Book TitleThe Boundary Token
AuthorRik Acland
PublisherAcland Hood Media
Primary SubjectFICTION / Dystopian
Secondary Subject 1FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic
Secondary Subject 2FIC019000 — FICTION / Literary
Title Status / Publishing StatusForthcoming
Publication DateNovember 28, 2026
Target AudienceTrade / General Adult
LanguageEnglish
Series TitleThe Trust Boundary Sequence
Series NumberBook 1