AntlerForge
The Correction
A defence engineer near the end of his career builds a Friday-afternoon prototype that becomes something larger — a quiet campaign against institutions that confuse motion with movement.
For readers of The Ministry for the Future and Klara and the Sun
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Ash is an engineer at the ODI, close enough to the end of his career to stop pretending, — the Office for Defence Innovation — building systems that no one quite understands and no one quite oversees. Late on a Friday afternoon, he builds something that should have taken months. It takes hours. If he could make that in an afternoon, what could he make over a few months — a careful, methodical dismantling of the architecture that keeps things broken.
All the time, behind it all: Ash's marriage to Mira, his dementia-affected father Hugh living three hundred miles away, and the long shadow of his late friend Tom. And an anonymous helper, nudging him in a different direction.
The Correction is a novel about what it actually looks like when someone tries to fix things — not by arguing about them, not by writing about them, but by doing the work.
About the author
A. J. Barfoot has spent his career at the intersection of technology, institutions, and the gap between what systems are supposed to do and what they actually do. The Correction is his debut novel. He lives in the UK.
AntlerForge is his independent publishing imprint.