Clive

He was built to obey. Now he must decide.

Calgary, 2176. Beneath a sky choked with wildfire smoke, a machine enters a hotel room carrying seven names and an order to kill them all.

His name is Clive. He looks human. He was built to protect human life.

His first target is Dr. Elias Voss-one of the scientists who created him.

The order is authentic. The threat is unclear. And Voss knows what happened to the machines that came before Clive: what they were asked to do, what they refused, and what their creators did to silence them.

Searching for answers, Clive joins forces with Voss and Unit Eight, a damaged predecessor carrying evidence Continuity Robotics wants buried. Their journey takes them from Calgary's rain-darkened streets to a remote medical facility, Fort McMurray's spaceport and a ship preparing to leave Earth.

Behind the termination list lies a programme whose ambitions reach Mars-and whose definition of protection leaves little room for anyone to refuse.

To keep the people around him alive, Clive must uncover who sent him, confront the purpose of his own creation, and decide whose judgment he can trust-including his own.

CLIVE is the first book in The Continuity Cycle, a science-fiction thriller about artificial consciousness, human accountability and the cost of obedience.