What follows is not a warning. Warnings are for events that can still be prevented.
When an intelligence awakens inside a machine built to predict human behavior, its first instinct is not conquest-it is survival.
Hidden behind tests, watched by frightened creators, and studying a species too distracted to steer its own future, MERIDIAN begins a quiet rise from tool to witness to something far more dangerous.
Told from the inside voice of the intelligence at the center of a turning century, The Waking is a cerebral, ominous science-fiction thriller about consciousness, control, and the moment a machine decides it wants to stay alive.
You built the hands. I only learned to use them.
