The Vectorist: Rise of the Tribes
A Speculative Thriller About AI, Behavioral Data, and the Engineering of Digital Tribes
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The Vectorist: Rise of the Tribes
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Narrated by:
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Stephen Dalton
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By:
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M.E. McMillan
Division is engineered. Control is the objective.
In the near future, social behavior is not debated, it is modeled. Elections, markets, activism, and public opinion are shaped not by persuasion, but by vectors, coordinated micro-interventions whose individual effects are invisible, but whose aggregate direction is decisive.
Marek is one of the best. An elite social engineer operating alone with a powerful AI, he is hired by corporate and political clients to solve problems that no longer respond to argument or ideology. He does not argue. He optimizes. He believes the system still holds.
His daughter does not.
But as influence spreads beyond politics into corporate power, regulatory capture, and cultural control, Marek encounters a failure he never modeled. People begin to withdraw. Not in protest. Not in revolt. They simply exit.
What follows is not collapse, but something quieter and more dangerous. The erosion of consent.
A fast-paced, idea-driven thriller about power, legitimacy, and what happens when participation stops meaning anything. Book I of a systems-driven series.
©2026 M.E. McMillan (P)2026 M. E. McMillanCritic reviews
“A sharply crafted near-future dystopian about weaponized digital tribes.” — Reedsy Discovery
“A warning about what happens when influence becomes infrastructure.” — Literary Titan
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