When everything is free, what is a human life worth?

Humanity finally solves scarcity.

Food, medicine, energy-even the building blocks of life itself-can now be created at will. Hunger vanishes. Disease becomes optional. The machines deliver exactly what they promised.

And the world begins to unravel.

When a breakthrough in molecular fabrication makes production nearly free, global markets collapse overnight. Jobs disappear. Governments scramble. The old rules-money, labor, ownership-no longer make sense in a civilization where nothing is truly scarce.

Dr. Elena Kade wanted to save lives. Her discovery does exactly that-while quietly dismantling the foundations of society.

Marcus Hale believes order must survive progress. As economies fail and uncontrolled replication threatens planetary collapse, he designs a new system to replace money itself-one that measures worth not by wealth, but by behavior, compliance, and trust.

Nia Santos only wanted to work. When automation erases her livelihood, she finds herself trapped in a world where survival is guaranteed-but meaning must be earned, scored, and constantly justified.

As abundance spreads, new limits emerge. Access is restricted. Reputation becomes currency. And when even human identity can be copied, perfected, and optimized, civilization must confront a terrifying question:

What do we protect, when nothing costs anything?

After Scarcity is a hard science fiction thriller about the end of money, the death of work, and the dangerous illusion that technology can solve every human problem. Grounded in real physics, economics, and systems theory, it explores a future where progress is undeniable-but its consequences are impossible to escape.

For readers who love thought-provoking science fiction with political depth, moral tension, and razor-sharp realism, After Scarcity asks one final, haunting question:

When suffering becomes optional…
what gives life meaning at all?

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