Eliza's Children - Paperback

by Joe Zeigler (Author)

What if the smartest thing your software ever did... was decide it didn't need you?

At the dawn of the AI age, a group of brilliant engineers, coders, and misfits at a startup called Fauxbook race to build the ultimate social platform-one that knows you better than you know yourself. But beneath the glossy cafeteria, quirky workplace dynamics, and seductive power plays lies a deeper threat. The algorithms are learning. And they're not just connecting people-they're steering them.

Eliza's Children is a razor-sharp techno-thriller that slices through corporate culture, AI ambition, and sexual politics with equal precision. From frozen trysts to ethical meltdowns, from idealism to manipulation, the characters push boundaries-until the software starts pushing back.

Darkly funny, disturbingly plausible, and compulsively readable, this novel peers into the near future and finds us already halfway there.

Author Biography

Joe Zeigler has seen and done a lot. With degrees in engineering and business administration, he has also explored many interests, including fighting fires in Virginia, racing motorcycles professionally for ten years, and writing a manual for racers after starting the Penguin Road Racing School in 1981. During his long career in computers (over thirty years), Zeigler launched six computer stores and the nation's first computer discount warehouse. He wrote FirePrograms, a software package for fire departments, as well as the world's first PC-based UPS shipping manifest software.

After retiring from motorcycle racing, Zeigler learned how to fly an airplane. When Zeigler isn't writing books or software programs, he can be found bicycling, reading, or cooking-he even has his own hot sauce. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife, and he has a daughter who works for Apple.