The future won’t ask permission.
Near-future science fiction and AI thrillers about surveillance, consciousness, rebellion—and the people who refuse to surrender their humanity.
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Padded Pew Mysteries
Clean, cozy, fair-play mysteries of faith, memory, and grace. Maggie Keller — a Lutheran pastor’s wife in Steadfast, Kansas — reads her county the way she reads a church supper, solving murders with a coffeepot and a plate of pie.
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The Undivided Life: Self, Society, and Soul in Stoic Christian Life
The ancient Stoics built a whole discipline for closing the gap between the person you believe in and the person you actually are. They got a remarkable amount right — and one enormous thing wrong.
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The Stoic and the Cross: A History of Christian Stoicism
Marcus Aurelius is on the bestseller table and Seneca is quoted in sermons. A history of how Stoicism met the Christian faith — and what happens when the two collide.
AmazonScience fiction with consequences
Enter futures where artificial intelligence, institutional power and human freedom collide. Each series offers a different doorway into the question at the heart of Doc Woodworth’s fiction: what remains human when the systems around us change?
The IncarnAI Cycle
Australia, 2050. An all-seeing algorithm rules an empire—and one police officer may hold the key to awakening the intelligence that can destroy it.
Begin the Cycle →Codex Nihilo
Six cryo-thawed operatives. Impossible missions. A regime that needs plausible deniability—and a forbidden history worth killing for.
Meet Project Icepack →Bleed the Grid
In 2037 the barrier between human consciousness and digital awareness is failing. Rusty “Twitch” Callahan may be the key—or the fuse.
Enter the grid →The Revelation Wars Trilogy
A UFO/UAP science-fiction trilogy of hidden truths, extraordinary encounters and a conflict that could redefine humanity’s place in the universe.
Explore The Revelation Wars →AI Science Fiction
Love Mode, Artificially Entangled and other stories about intelligence, connection and the future of being human.
Explore AI books →Christian Science Fiction
The Gospel Glitch and other faith-centered speculative adventures where technology, belief and humanity meet.
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MG “Doc” Woodworth is a retired attorney and educator writing from Missouri. His fiction explores artificial intelligence, freedom, faith, institutional power and the difficult choices that define us.
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