Cover of Beyond the Blueprint by Christopher Dormbeck. A glowing golden blueprint of a human figure, half fine wireframe and half tangled gold circuitry around a bright sun, towers over a lone person standing on a sea wall at night.

Speculative fiction · Out now

Beyond the Blueprint

A Thousand-Year Journey, 2026 – 3100

A thousand years of humanity and AI, and one big question: what happens when we finally get everything we wanted?

Kindle eBook, released 19 September 2026. $2.99, or free with Kindle Unlimited.

Paperback coming soon. Want to keep track? Add it on Goodreads.

About the book

From 2026 to 3100

Beyond the Blueprint follows humanity and artificial intelligence across a thousand years. It begins in 2026, when AI is a handy assistant, and ends in 3100, when it has become the fabric of life itself.

From the book description

From humanity’s greatest creation to its ultimate evolution.

In 2026, artificial intelligence was just a tool: a digital assistant designed to optimise our daily lives. By 3100, it had become the very fabric of our existence.

This sweeping journey through the next millennium explores the profound and deeply symbiotic relationship between humanity and AI. As we transition from operators of technology to overseers of a post-scarcity utopia, the human experience is radically transformed. AI cures genetic diseases, halts ageing, and solves our most pressing global crises, ushering in a Golden Age of limitless energy and unprecedented peace.

But utopia comes with a price. As the boundary between biology and technology permanently blurs, society fractures. From ideological divides between biological purists and the aggressively augmented, to the total migration of minds into digital megastructures, the very definition of what it means to be human is contested.

Spanning a thousand years, this book chronicles our expansion across the stars and our divergent evolution into entirely new species. We will achieve practical immortality and total mastery over matter, but in doing so, we will step completely beyond our original design.

We will become the aliens. And our greatest threat will be each other.

A thousand years at a glance

  1. 2026

    AI is a helpful digital assistant, built to make everyday life run a little smoother.

  2. The Golden Age

    Genetic diseases cured, ageing halted, limitless energy. Everything we ever asked for.

  3. The fracture

    Biological purists and the augmented pull apart, and being human becomes a contested idea.

  4. 3100

    Minds in digital megastructures, humanity spread across the stars, and AI woven into everything.

Format
Kindle eBook, about 63 pages
Published
19 September 2026
Price
$2.99, free with Kindle Unlimited
Paperback
Coming soon

About the author

Christopher Dormbeck

Christopher Dormbeck is a budding novelist with a soft spot for technology and a habit of asking ‘and then what?’ one too many times.

He writes speculative fiction about where our tools might take us, and who we might become along the way. Beyond the Blueprint is his first book.

He reads about new technology the way other people read the weather, always checking what’s coming next. Drop him a line and tell him what you think the future holds.

Contact

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