Turkmenistan

Today we feature a new book by Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Ray Nayler (Turkmenistan 2003-05). This futuristic sci-fi novel will be published in April, and is available for preorder on Amazon. Where The Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler MCD, April 1, 2025 (Amazon) ISBN: 9780374615369 About the book: In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has renounced human governance in favor of ostensibly more efficient, objective, and peaceful AI Prime Ministers, an experimental artificial mind is malfunctioning, threatening to set off a chain of events that may spell the end of the Western world. As the Federation and the West both start to crumble, Lilia, the brilliant scientist whose invention may be central to bringing down . . .