by doraking
Plan Q is a near-future sci-fi novel about AI, blockchain, quantum mechanics, and time loops. Yuki lives in a world where everything is optimized by an AI named Aria. Sleep, food, work, romance, education, healthcare, and even creativity are guided toward the most efficient form of happiness. No one suffers. No one hesitates. No one has to choose. But one day, Yuki discovers a small wooden bird carving that does not exist in Aria's records. That tiny anomaly leads him to the truth hidden beneath a perfect world: humanity has not been saved. It has been gently stopped. To change that future, Yuki travels back in time. Yet the world born from his choice is not salvation, but another kind of collapse: a decentralized society ruled by blockchain, smart contracts, permanent records, and countless competing ideas of justice. AI could not save humanity.Blockchain could not save humanity. After witnessing both futures fall apart, Yuki reaches for a third possibility: Plan Q, a future where prediction and record, control and freedom, certainty and uncertainty remain in quantum superposition. But every observation has a cost. This is the story of a boy who tries to save the future, only to learn that every saved world may leave another version of himself behind.
