The system works as intended –
until it no longer waits for permission.
In a city governed by AI surveillance,
classification, and systemic coercion,
Gaussian Blur finds himself drawn into a
small network operating in the margins.
A catastrophic disruption forces the
system to reset. It stutters. It adapts.
Murmur is a novel about political control,
resistance, and the consequences of
optimisation without consent.
Craig Sayers has spent most of his life chasing ideas until they agreed to be finished; this one was more elusive. For over thirty years he was “thinking about writing a book,” a pursuit that produced notebooks, notes-to-self, and false starts, separated by periods of dormancy.
As the world grew more opaque and increasingly shaped by systems he could not see, the story he kept postponing began to feel awkwardly timely. This book emerged when procrastination became untenable – or perhaps when its moment finally arrived. He remains undecided.
Craig Sayers has spent most of his life chasing ideas until they agreed to be finished; this one was more elusive. For over thirty years he was “thinking about writing a book,” a pursuit that produced notebooks, notes-to-self, and false starts, separated by periods of dormancy.
As the world grew more opaque and increasingly shaped by systems he could not see, the story he kept postponing began to feel awkwardly timely. This book emerged when procrastination became untenable – or perhaps when its moment finally arrived. He remains undecided.