Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apex Risen | 2019 | Scott Medbury | Buy |
The Redux Protocol is a sci-fi thriller that moves away from Medbury’s usual post-apocalyptic territory. Apex Risen (2019) is set in Chicago and involves a Sinthetica robot — a perfect human-form android — delivered to a mobster named Dimitri Molenski. The story explores what happens when advanced artificial beings intersect with organized crime.
The novel shares thematic ground with Medbury’s standalone Sinthetica (2016), both examining the implications of creating artificial humans that are indistinguishable from real ones. It is a more contained, character-driven story than his survival fiction, though it retains his interest in how technology disrupts the systems people depend on.