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.
Science 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?
Dawn of the InCarnAI
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 trilogy →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 →Start with A Transforming Fire
The Comity Empire governs through an iron algorithm. Surveillance is absolute. Freedom is an illusion. When Constable Siska Tatum is pulled into a covert attempt to awaken a sentient intelligence inside the regime’s own system, one decision could ignite a revolution.
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Stories shaped by law, education and the future of power
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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