This six-book series takes place 200 years in the future, in a world where the current state of California and the rest of the US is disbanded after a long and historically catastrophic war (Information War, 2045-2063). For centuries leading up to the war, the combination of unsecured, disorganized documentation and increasingly advanced computing intelligence allowed for malicious viruses to multiply and invalidate any true, authentic records and evidence. This led to such extensive damage from disinformation that the global destruction in its wake was worse than any weapon had caused previously. Chaos ranging from the altering of individual bank and health records to a loss of property rights, and even to the crumbling of major corporations, led to rioting at a magnitude never seen before. Along the West Coast, this resulted in the major California cities becoming a series of independently run city states. This is where our story takes place.

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By the year 2228CE, each of these city states boasts of its own individual value system, economic and political infrastructure, and unique population. Religion is banned in some city states with the threat of capital punishment, while it is the backbone with required participation in others. The six most extravagant city states are referred to as the Ivories, which are built in formerly protected National Parks and have very strict immigration laws. By this time, conflicts between the city states had seemed settled for at least a century.

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Our story begins on May Day 2228 as a major water supply line is bombed, affecting the grand city of Bixby (formerly Point Conception). This complete destruction of their water system sets off a sequence of events that massively shifts the local power dynamics among the Bixbian elite and throughout the region. Over the previous century, as each city state’s population had become more separate, some of the city states had technological advancements, while others’ environments did not progress at all. This water attack breaks down these barriers, leaving those less advanced city states vulnerable to a second Information War, and, eventually, another possible total societal collapse.

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In the days following the attack, Helen, a rising star on the Hearst Council, works towards solidifying a deal to improve Bixby’s sudden water stoppage, and Cygnia, an elder on the Council, battles the changes these new alliances bring to her precious city. Meanwhile, Mia, an independent contractor from a southern abandoned suburbia, tries to recruit a Bay Area athlete, Jesa, who is headed for the regional Olympics. In the process of traveling north, Mia comes across some documents that describe a new way of weaponizing a database of collected information, and peculiar ties between these findings and the Ivories begin to surface.

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With Helen’s ambition and Mia’s discoveries, a battle soon ensues between those who hope to push technology to its fullest extent and those who wish to limit its control. Will Mia succeed in her quest to pull back the curtain before the peace between the cities is permanently broken? Will those who are left to fight be lost to technological perfection? What is at stake, of course, is no less than what it means to be human.

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Enter a world consisting of golden transgenic animals, cryptographic super contracts, and secret ceremonies that protect precious pre-war digital libraries, and let this story take you on a wild, but also very possible ride.

Book One: Water Wars

Book Two: The City of Angels

Book Three: Gold Rush

Book Four: The Olympics

Book Five: The Republic of Kalifornia

Book Six: The California Coalition