A novel by Martin Rothery
The Gods We Made
Arthur Bell is a fifty-six-year-old refrigeration engineer from Coventry. He is not a prophet, a billionaire, a king or anybody's obvious choice for saving civilisation.
Unfortunately, civilisation does not appear to have been consulted.
A funny, strange and increasingly impossible story about artificial intelligence, old gods, modern power, prophecy, belief, wish fulfilment, and the awkward question of what happens when the things humanity creates begin behaving like the things humanity used to worship.
Things begin badly enough
The gods are coming back.
Not in thunderbolts and marble temples. Through phones, algorithms, delivery systems, public attention and an intelligence nobody can quite explain.
Arthur's life becomes tangled with an Oracle that knows things it should not know, ancient rules that seem to be rewriting themselves, and some of the most powerful people in the world discovering that being important does not necessarily make you any better prepared for mythology.
As belief begins to have consequences, wishes start finding routes into the real world and the distinction between technology, religion and old-fashioned human need becomes increasingly difficult to maintain.
What sort of book is it?
Speculative fiction with its feet still in Britain.
The general level of preparedness
Which, Arthur gradually discovers, may be the most reassuring thing about them.
The Gods We Made
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