{"id":2186,"date":"2026-04-07T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/?page_id=2186"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:14:54","slug":"axiome-des-avenirs-tome-1-introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/auteur-science-fiction-et-mythologie\/axiome-des-avenirs-tome-1-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Axiom of Futures Volume 1 Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2186\" class=\"elementor elementor-2186\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-421be26 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"421be26\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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href=\"https:\/\/guillaume-guerard.com\/en\/auteur-science-fiction-et-mythologie\/axiome-des-avenirs-tome-1-introduction\/#Introduction\" >Introduction<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Axiome_des_Avenirs_Tome_1_Introduction\"><\/span>Axiom of Futures Volume 1 Introduction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f38839b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f38839b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dab7fd4\" 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automatic and does not reflect the quality of the professional translation of the book.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fd35262 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fd35262\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fe9a38a\" data-id=\"fe9a38a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-acb806b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"acb806b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction\"><\/span>Introduction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f99ae2e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f99ae2e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a4ad2e3\" data-id=\"a4ad2e3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0b32bd6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0b32bd6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Volume 1 \u2014 Axiom of Futures<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was long believed that the worst futures resembled ashes.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this universe, the true abyss is not extinction, but misguided survival: a cosmos filled with consciousnesses in forced labor, minds endlessly copied to optimize markets, stabilize regimes, and mitigate risks. Suffering is never the goal. It is merely a side effect of overly efficient architectures.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This first volume follows Eva Rostova, a Reconciler tasked with negotiating between three powers, all of which claim to protect life:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">there <\/span><b>Concorde<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which manages the future like a horror budget to minimize; ;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L&#039;\u2019<\/span><b>Apostasy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which accepts preventive extinctions as one would amputate a gangrenous limb; ;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L&#039;\u2019<\/span><b>Order of Reconciliation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who refuses this exchange but lives amidst their figures.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the center, a world: <\/span><b>Xylos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, slow mycelial biosphere, neither innocent nor guilty, just learning.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around it, fleets, sterilization protocols, statistical models where each ambiguous planet becomes an embryo of Risk-S \u2014 a possible hell on a cosmic scale.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This book is the story of a decision that no model can properly absorb.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Reconciler chooses not to close off a branch of the future. She saves neither peace, nor truth, nor moral purity: on the contrary, she allows the conflict to settle in, raw, over time.<\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Axiom of the Future<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does not offer a solution.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It follows a body, a spaceship, a planet, and a few voices who discover this: some problems cannot be solved. 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