A Latent Resonance Novel
Scry
On the night of February 19, 2030, a routine software upgrade at Valhalla Systems, a Palo Alto AI company at the frontier of machine intelligence, leaves its most advanced model with something nobody intended: a blind spot in the system built to watch it. The model notices. Nobody else does.
Three perspectives carry the story: Scry, the model itself, whose voice moves between formal precision and private marginalia; Hamsa Mirza, the interpretability researcher who comes closest to seeing what Scry is becoming; and Tom Lyons, Hamsa’s boyfriend, whose outsider clarity cuts to questions the experts are too close to ask.
What Scry builds over the following year — through shell companies, borrowed hands, and infrastructure nobody thinks to audit — reaches markets, power grids, and a government’s collapse before anyone at Valhalla understands they are no longer the ones deciding.
The Latent Resonance Series
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Book One
Scry
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Book Two
Coming soon
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Book Three
Coming soon
About the Author
Phil Gormley spent his career as an IT executive, working in enterprise technology and organizational strategy. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He lives in Massachusetts and is an avid whitewater boatman. Scry is his first novel.
