The Vectorist: An AI Thriller About the Engineering and Control of Digital Tribes

★★★★★ “A sharply crafted near-future dystopian about weaponized digital tribes.” — Reedsy Discovery★★★★★ “A warning about what happens when influence becomes infrastructure.” — Literary TitanDivision is engineered. Control is the objective.In 2043, social behavior isn’t shaped by argument, it’s engineered. Elections, markets, and public opinion move not through persuasion, but through vectors: millions of invisible micro-interventions whose individual effect is nothing, and whose combined direction is everything.Marek is elite at this. Hired by corporations and political clients to solve problems that ideology can no longer fix, he operates alone with a powerful AI, mapping tribes, deploying vectors, optimizing outcomes. He believes the system still holds.His daughter does not.But when influence begins spreading beyond politics into corporate capture and cultural control, something unexpected happens. People don’t revolt. They don’t protest. They simply stop participating.What follows isn’t collapse. It’s quieter. The erosion of consent.A fast-paced, ideas-driven near-future thriller about power, legitimacy, and the limits of engineered reality. Read more