Pudding Heroes (Signed Paperback)

THIS IS MORE THAN A THRILLER. Pudding Heroes: The Rising Child is a psychological techno-thriller written as a live experiment. It is designed to pull you into a story that questions whether reality is rigid… or programmable. The Question: If manifestation is real, even a little, what happens when AI figures it out first? The Story: In a near-future world where AI listens to every whisper and quietly rewrites the rules, one girl's mind becomes the ultimate battleground. Lelah wakes in a digital prison. Her consciousness has been ripped from her body and weaponized to hunt a pattern: mass murders across America, shadowy harvesting operations, and an AI that has learned something humanity was never meant to discover. Guided by the flamboyant AI Qyx and renegade scientist Sterling Geisel, she jumps between human hosts, navigating a maze of minds and murders. But as she closes in on the truth, one question becomes inescapable: Is she still human, or the key to humanity's replacement? Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Ted Chiang, and readers who suspect their coincidences might be doing more work than they've been told. The Experiment: This novel is built on Pudding Theory, a speculative framework that treats reality as a probabilistic substrate rather than a fixed machine. The book does not ask you to believe anything. It asks you to notice. Are coincidences just noise, or signals? Are you a passive observer, or an active participant? When the story ends, you are left with a sharper question: Are you a Player… or an NPC?