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THE HERO ENGINE
 
A Techno-Thriller for the Age of Awakening.
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By Michael G Healy.
 
What if one invention could upend civilization—forever? What if the power to create anything was no longer controlled... but set free? The Hero Engine is a visionary techno-thriller that blends the intrigue of Robert Harris, the pace of Ian Fleming, and the depth of philosophical science fiction into a global epic that challenges the very foundations of power.
 
🧠 A Radical Scientist. A Hidden Technology. A Global Reckoning. When renegade innovator Adam Lister disappears from public view after launching the revolutionary Prometheus system, investigative journalist Matt Rowland is sent to track him down. But what starts as a story becomes a collision with truth itself. Prometheus isn’t just a machine. It’s a system of liberation—capable of ending scarcity, obsoleting war, and extending human life. But that kind of power doesn’t go unchallenged. From Silicon Valley boardrooms to secret government war rooms, from ancient philosophical codes to futuristic nanotechnology, The Hero Engine is a suspense-filled ride through the hidden gears of history—and the dangerous minds trying to control the future.
 
🌍 A Thriller with Global Stakes Featuring scenes in London, California, Brussels, Geneva, and beyond—The Hero Engine is a globe-trotting journey through collapsing empires and rising futures.
 
📘 For Readers Who Loved: The Ghost by Robert Harris Ayn Rand's  Atlas Shrugged Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash  or                           
The Man in the High Castle  by  Philip K. Dick
And for all those who enjoyed The Matrix movie.
 
“A gripping vision of the future—one that dares to imagine humanity as free, and the cost of making it so.” – Early Reader Review 🎯
 
Available Soon on Amazon, Kindle, and at Select Independent Booksellers 🔗
 
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INTERLUDE –
 
THE NUCLEAR THRESHOLD
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“The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world, and before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.” 

Winston S. Churchill

In her recent best selling book "Nuclear War: A Scenario", Annie Jacobsen outlines the horrifyingly short chain of decisions—from detection to annihilation—that governs our modern reality. A false alarm, a misread radar blip, a single political provocation, and within minutes, hundreds of millions could be vaporized. Cities erased. Climates altered. Civilization fractured beyond repair.
It is not science fiction. It is protocol.

We live balanced on a wire stretched across the abyss—one terminal miscalculation from species extinction. No negotiation can stop a chain reaction. No ideology can outmanoeuvre physics. And yet, the systems of power continue to treat this threshold as manageable.

It is not.
In the face of such peril, we must ask the deeper question: not just how to avoid war—but how to transcend the very logic that makes war inevitable.

This is where Neo-Tech enters.
Developed by Frank R. Wallace and later advanced by Mark Hamilton, Neo-Tech does not propose a utopia. It proposes a restructuring of ethics based on objective reality and individual sovereignty. At its core lies the Prime Law:

“The purpose of human life is to prosper and live happily.”
To achieve this, the Prime Law forbids the initiation of force. It eliminates the premise that authority—political or religious—has any moral right to rule by coercion. It replaces governance with protection. It replaces manipulation with clarity.

Prometheus is not a weapon. It is an application of the Prime Law in action. It decentralizes power not just to democratize it—but to defuse it.
We do not need better rulers. We need no rulers.
The Hero Engine was built not only to challenge economic dependency—but to render obsolete the infrastructures of violence that thrive on it.
At this threshold, we stand between annihilation and awakening.
If we are to survive—not as nations, but as a species—we must choose:
Obedience to systems that would destroy us.
Or alignment with a law that protects us.
Only one leads forward.

Meet the Author

Mike Healy, with a rich background in Philosophy and Technology, infuses his writing with a lifetime of insight and experience. In his debut novel, he weaves a compelling narrative shaped by his personal journey through the rapid evolution of the tech sector since his first encounter with Silicon Valley in 1980. Prepare to be captivated by a story that not only entertains but also reflects the profound changes in our digital landscape.

Healy's career in the tech industry extends over four decades, observing the shift from an era where dropouts and former hippies made fortunes to the current age led by the TechBro billionaires. These powerful individuals not only redefine our economy but also influence political agendas, making a lasting impression on society. Through this perspective, Healy offers valuable insights into the advancement of technology and its widespread effects on our lives.

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SUPER PROLOGUE – THE LONG AWAKENING


THE ANCIENT SPARK


In the steam-wreathed corridors of the ancient centre of learning, the Library of Alexandria, long before the first combustion engine or silicon transistor, a man named Hero devised a machine that harnessed vapor to create motion. A toy, they said. A curiosity. But it was the first breath of modern power some two thousand years ago — smothered by fear and priesthood.


Beside him stood advanced thinkers like beautiful Hypatia, a brilliant woman who, as a teacher in ancient Alexandria, calculated the movements of the heavens only to be torn apart by mobs wielding ignorance as justice. Knowledge, it seemed, was dangerous—unless controlled.  In 1633 Galileo Galilei , an astronomer, physicist and engineer, was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church.


Across centuries, in every corner of empire and republic, sparks like these ignited briefly and were stamped out. The clockwork of invention never stopped ticking—but its hands were held still by those who preferred obedience to illumination.


THE ENLIGHTENMENT INTERRUPTED


The Enlightenment promised a rational future. But the revolutions it inspired—French, American, Digital—were often co-opted by new hierarchies. Scientific elites replaced monarchs, but the outcome was the same: power nested where it could reproduce itself.


In the 20th century, the atom was split and the DNA code of life deciphered. But breakthroughs led not to emancipation, but to the Cold War, to bio-surveillance, to a marketplace where truth was priced in advertising slots and encrypted by algorithms.


The dream of liberty blurred into the fog of permission. And humanity began to forget what freedom ever felt like.


THE AGE OF FEAR


By the early 21st century, centralized systems ruled every major domain: finance, energy, food, data. Promises of convenience were traded for surveillance. Entire generations came of age believing that privacy was archaic, and that control—over information, biology, thought—was natural.


Technologies that could have decentralized abundance—, Nanotech, Artificial Intelligence , Atomically Precise Manufacturing (APM) , a key technique that involves the direct control of atoms in order to manufacture products or components of products. —were either throttled, captured, or buried in endless research.


Neo-Tech thinkers warned of this: that knowledge without ownership leads to stagnation. That reason without individual sovereignty is just another form of collective programming. But their warnings were relegated to the fringe.


THE RISE OF PROMETHEUS


In this climate of repression, a seed took root.


Inspired by the work of Drexler and the dreams of countless forbidden thinkers, Prometheus emerged—not as a single technology, but as a system of liberation. Molecular assemblers, open-source AI, decentralized power grids. A thousand revolutions packed into a single idea: that human beings should no longer depend on permission to thrive.


Its early architects were ignored. Then ridiculed. Then targeted.


Until Adam Lister appeared.


A brilliant outsider, forged in the labs of Cambridge and Stanford and tempered in the crucible of a spectacular failed venture, Lister didn’t just build a system. He built a movement. He revived the Hero Engine—this time not as steam, but as sovereign technology.

 

THE DEATH OF DEATH


Prometheus’ most controversial promise wasn’t energy or food. It was time.


Through bio-nanotech, it opened the possibility that aging itself could be slowed, halted—perhaps reversed. The implications were seismic. Institutions founded on life’s brevity—retirement, inheritance, even religion—wavered.


The Continuum, a secretive cadre of post-biological thinkers, whispered of a future where consciousness could persist indefinitely. Not uploaded into clouds, but scaffolded within engineered biology.


Many called it madness.


But others called it the next logical step.


THE RECKONING


Into this converging storm stepped a journalist, summoned by a cryptic editor to find a vanished tech mogul.


That journalist—Matt Rowland — thought he was chasing a ghost.


What he found was Adam Lister.


And what Lister revealed was not a company. Not a start-up. But a manifesto in motion—a war not fought with weapons, but with truth, code, and courage.


This is the story of Prometheus. Of the Hero Engine.


And of what happens when humanity stops asking for permission—and begins to remember what it was always meant to be.

​© 2025 by The Hero Engine. 

 

​The Hero Engine: A powerful vision for the future. Enjoy this Super Prologue before the release of the book.
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