Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AL:ICE | 2014 | Charles W. Lamb | Buy |
| 2 | AL:ICE-9 | 2015 | Charles W. Lamb | Buy |
| 3 | AL:ICE Resurrection | 2016 | Charles W. Lamb | Buy |
| 4 | AL:ICE Space War | 2017 | Charles W. Lamb | Buy |
| 5 | AL:ICE Alliance | 2020 | Charles W. Lamb | Buy |
| 6 | AL:ICE Explorer | 2021 | Charles W. Lamb | Buy |
| 7 | AL:ICE Avatar | 2023 | Charles W. Lamb | Buy |
| 8 | AL:ICE AI vs AL | 2024 | Charles W. Lamb | Buy |
The AL:ICE series begins when Captain Jake Thomas, a divorced Marine combat veteran, volunteers for a DARPA experiment that goes wrong. He wakes up in a future where humanity has lost two hundred years of technological progress and half its population. The world he finds is nothing like the one he left.
What he does find is AL:ICE — Artificial Life: Intelligent Computing Environment — an AI system far more advanced than anything from his own era. Together, Jake and AL:ICE work to restore what humanity has lost. The series runs for eight books, published between 2014 and 2024, and expands from Earth-based recovery into space exploration and interstellar conflict as the stakes grow with each installment.