My Catholic Near Future AI Dystopia Novel Is Here.
I wrote a book about the end of the world
I wrote a book about the end of the world. Not because I wanted to, because I had to.
Because every sci-fi pretends like Christianity stopped existing long before the story. And because I think I can see where things are going. Technology creeping deeper into every corner of human life. People trading their freedom, their privacy, their souls for convenience. A screen in every hand. An algorithm behind every decision. And the Church, the one institution that should have been sounding the alarm, going quiet.
So I wrote a story about what happens when that process reaches its conclusion. And about the people who refuse it.
Arca: The Remnant is set in the Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina. The world has fallen under the control of Cityhell, a dystopia built on artificial intelligence and total submission. Humanity didn’t resist. It volunteered.
But in the mountains, a Catholic community called Arca endures. They are the remnant. The ones who said no. They chose faith over comfort, hardship over compliance, God over the machine.
The story is narrated by an angel named Severian, and it follows the people of Arca as they fight to preserve what it means to be human in a world that has already forgotten.
This is Catholic fiction. It is post-apocalyptic fiction. It is a war story between the soul and the system that would replace it.
Why Argentina?
People will ask me this, so I’ll answer it now.
Because Argentina is in my blood. Because the Sierras de Córdoba are one of the most beautiful and forgotten landscapes on earth. Because Latin America carries a Catholic fire that much of the West has let die. And because a story about faith and resistance deserved a setting that hasn’t been used a thousand times before.
I didn’t want to write another American apocalypse. This is something different.
Why Now?
Look around you. Every week there’s a new headline about AI replacing jobs, generating art, writing sermons, diagnosing patients. We are being told daily that the machine can do it better. That we are inefficient. That we are the problem.
Arca: The Remnant is my answer to that lie.
Man was not made to be optimized. He was made in the image of God. And no algorithm will ever replicate a soul.
How You Can Help
If this resonates with you, here’s what I’m asking:
Buy the book. It’s available in paperback on Amazon right now.
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This book is the most important thing I’ve ever written. I hope it finds the people it was written for.
Viva Cristo Rey.
- Clark