The Quiet Age
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Narrated by:
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Steven Van Buren
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By:
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Steven Van Buren
In a near-future America transformed by artificial intelligence, work has largely disappeared—and with it, the structures that once gave life meaning. In their place, powerful ideological communities known as Houses have emerged, each offering identity, purpose, and belonging in a world where survival is no longer the central human struggle.
As loyalty to the Houses begins to replace loyalty to the nation itself, society edges toward fragmentation. Valens Hartman of House Aurelius and Avalie Alonso of House Atlas find themselves at the center of a rapidly escalating crisis neither fully understands—and neither can avoid.
When attempts to preserve order begin to deepen division instead of healing it, both are forced into a question larger than politics or power: if humanity no longer needs to work to survive, what is it willing to live for?
The Quiet Age is a philosophical science fiction thriller about identity, belonging, and the fragile systems people build to create meaning in an age of artificial intelligence.
©2026 Steven Van Buren (P)2026 Steven Van Buren