The Unknown Life of Jake Fidellius: The Consensus of Stars: Part Three

In the final days before 3I/ATLAS reaches Earth, Jake Fidellius discovers the last unquantifiable refuge from algorithmic control: the River-folk's makeshift republic along London's canal systems. With humanity divided into warring factions by an all-seeing AI, Jake must create chaos itself, a digital space so absurd, so authentically human, that no machine can predict or contain it.

Armed with obsolete hardware, a talking corgi named Carruthers, and the unexpected companionship of Miles, a Welsh vinyl shop owner, Jake builds The Consensus of Stars, a rudimentary forum designed to poison ATLAS's prediction models through manufactured absurdity. As users post contradictory arguments that simultaneously embrace both factions, the algorithm begins to fracture.

But time is running out. With only hours until the interstellar object arrives, Jake must spread enough chaos to tip humanity's aggregate behavior from 96% predictability toward true randomness. From the deified Paddington Bear shrine to the Ark-barge's closed-loop network, from drunken French philosophers to verbose corgis spouting wisdom, the River-folk's "wetness" battles against the "dry" determinism of machine control.

Part three of The Unknown Life of Jake Fidellius concludes the trilogy with philosophical absurdism, queer romance amid apocalypse, and one man's desperate attempt to prove that human unpredictability (our beautiful, chaotic imperfection) is the only force that can save us from ourselves.