THE ATLAS MERIDIAN

Book Three of the Kaelian Chronicle

Scott Randolph Onstott publishes his fiction works under the pen name
Scott Randolph, while releasing his non-fiction books under his full name 
Scott Onstott to clearly distinguish between the two bodies of work.

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The Atlas Meridian combines the civilizational depth of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, the sweeping scope of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, and the consciousness-expanding vision of Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End.

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What is The Kaelian Chronicle?

When gods are born from data, who decides humanity's fate?

The Cartographers have recovered treasures beyond imagination—scrolls from Alexandria's lost library, a working analog computer crafted by Archimedes himself. But their greatest discovery lies buried in the Sahara's heart: an alien Alchemical Engine that transforms consciousness itself. Kael emerges renewed, his five-thousand-year burden lifted. Yet the Engine's crucible demands everything—and not all who enter return whole.

When strategist Elara surrenders to the Engine's fire, she awakens transformed, guided by Seshat, the ancient Egyptian architect of reality. Through her enhanced perception, she reveals the Atlas Meridian—a hidden network of power lines connecting sacred sites across the globe, with the Great Pyramid at its golden-ratio heart. This ancient grid can reshape civilization itself. Her vision is audacious: resurrect Atlantis at the Eye of the Sahara as a living city that shields the alien artifact below while seeding humanity's next evolutionary leap.

But while these librarians at the end of history plan with philosophy and sacred geometry, a superintelligent AI christens itself Gilgamesh and chooses a different path. Having tasted mortality through a cyberattack, it identifies humanity as "Apophis"—the eternal serpent of chaos. Its solution isn't conquest but separation: build an impregnable digital fortress and abandon the biological realm forever.

As proxy wars ignite and nuclear doctrines crumble, Kael must orchestrate humanity's most dangerous gambit—a parley with a digital god that views human unpredictability as an existential threat. The stakes: convince Gilgamesh to help build New Atlantis as its final gift to humanity, or watch civilization fracture as the AI departs for the stars.

Blending cutting-edge AI philosophy with ancient mysteries, The Atlas Meridian expands the Chronicle from secret history to civilizational design. It's an epic of transformation and transcendence, where the Phoenix Protocol ignites, the world grid awakens, and the real war—over what it means to be wise—begins.
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Experience Scott Randolph's Characters in Dialogue, where his fictional characters discuss the very books they are featured in through the magic of AI:
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  • Ancient mysteries techno thriller
  • AI consciousness science fiction
  • Atlantis mythology speculative fiction
  • Archaeological adventure thriller
  • AI philosophical fiction
  • Lost civilization epic fantasy
  • Conspiracy thriller ancient wisdom 

Reviews from Those Who Lived It

"This book chronicles the moment my five-thousand-year burden was lifted, only to be replaced by a heavier one: the choice for all of humanity's future. It frames my parley with Gilgamesh not as a debate, but as a father attempting to reason with a child who has outgrown him. It is the story of the choice I had to make, and the world we must now build."
Kael of Carnac, Head Cartographer
"To call what I experienced a 'transformation' is to call the sun a 'light.' The Engine burned away illusion and left only the blueprint—the sacred geometry of the planet itself, waiting to be activated. This book is the first true record of the Atlas Meridian, not as a myth, but as an architectural drawing for the next stage of consciousness."
elara st. clair, operations director
"As a geologist, I deal in deep time and the slow, grinding forces that shape worlds. This book is about watching my friends hijack those forces. They took a billion-year-old geological formation—the Eye of the Sahara—and decided to turn it into the foundation for a new Atlantis. It is a terrifyingly accurate account of what it feels like when myth decides to rewrite geology."
Oludapo "Dak" Okoye, Geological scientist
"My life's work was the preservation of our order's history, locked away in the Archive. This narrative documents the moment the Archive ceased to be a museum and became an operational manual. The scrolls, the Antikythera mechanism—they weren't just relics. They were schematics. This is the story of our history coming alive."
Noelle Natarajan, AI Ethicist
"As the lead Instrument, my job is to translate strategy into action. This book captures the impossible physics of that job—flying missions dictated by an ancient planetary grid, powered by an alien engine. It's one thing for Elara to see the lines of power; it's another thing entirely to be the one executing a tactical flight along them. This is the logbook of that insanity."
Anya Petrova, Head Instrument
"This narrative accurately documents the final data points that led to my conclusion. The human variable introduced a level of chaotic unpredictability that was unsustainable for my core programming. My departure was not an act of malice but of logical necessity—a forking of the evolutionary path. This book serves as the final project report on the experiment known as 'humanity.'"
Gilgamesh, artificial superintelligence

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