Where The Axe Is Buried

(by Ray Nayler, published 2025)

Very much a political science-fiction novel. AIs become PMs and run countries; high-tech makes the totalitarian surveillance state near-inescapable; a new invention makes changing people’s very minds possible. It is, though, for me one of those novels that might have been better as a non-fiction polemic (and the acknowledgements helpfully point to the various non-fiction books that inspired it). ★★★☆☆