Vols I-III Collector’s Edition
The Collector’s Edition is a single compendium containing Volumes I, II and III.
Three volumes. One civilizational argument.
The Metis Imperative: Collector’s Edition brings together all three volumes of the series in a single compendium: The Opaque Machine, The Chronos Conundrum and The Atlas Burden.
Across nearly 800 pages, the series explores the Promethean Convergence: the moment when artificial intelligence, biotechnology, longevity science, robotics, energy, resources and governance begin to collide as parts of one civilizational event. These are not separate revolutions. They are interlocking transformations of mind, body and world.
Volume I, The Opaque Machine, examines artificial intelligence as a new kind of power: opaque, adaptive, agentic and increasingly embedded in the systems through which we think, decide and govern.
Volume II, The Chronos Conundrum, turns inward to the body, asking what happens when ageing becomes measurable, modifiable and perhaps negotiable — not only as a scientific frontier, but as a question of power, access, inequality and social design.
Volume III, The Atlas Burden, brings the argument back to the physical world, where digital ambition meets energy, minerals, infrastructure, logistics, state capacity and the hard limits of the planet.
Together, the three books make a single case: the future will not be shaped by innovation alone. It will require Metis — practical wisdom under conditions of uncertainty. The ability to govern powerful systems without pretending they are simple. The courage to build, but also the discipline to ask what kind of world we are building.
The Collector’s Edition is designed for readers who want the full architecture of the argument in one volume: the complete trilogy as a single map of the Promethean century.
Begin the full journey through mind, body and world — and the wisdom required to shape what comes next.
Available exclusively on Amazon in Paperback and Kindle formats:
Paperback (800 pages, Color): $89.99/£69.99/€74.99
Kindle: $34.99/£29.99
Collector’s Edition Reviews
“A towering intellectual achievement. With The Metis Imperative trilogy, David Kerrigan maps the ultimate triad of human disruption: the externalization of the mind, the engineering of the body, and the remaking of the physical world. This is the definitive guide to the Promethean Century."
"An astonishing synthesis of ancient wisdom and bleeding-edge science. Across three masterful volumes, Kerrigan seamlessly connects the silicon of AI, the carbon of engineered biology, and the iron of global infrastructure. The Metis Imperative is the most cohesive and urgent roadmap of the human future written this decade."
"Breathtaking in its foresight. The Metis Imperative series is not just a forecast of how AI, biotechnology, and energy will converge to upend society—it is a civilizational survival manual. Kerrigan provides the exact strategic wisdom we desperately need to govern our new, god-like technologies."
"While others look at tech trends in isolation, Kerrigan sees the matrix. By bridging the cognitive revolution of Volume I, the biological shockwaves of Volume II, and the infrastructural burdens of Volume III, The Metis Imperative delivers a complete, terrifying, and profoundly necessary blueprint for the next fifty years."
"A sweeping, visionary trilogy. The Metis Imperative connects the dots between artificial intelligence, radical life extension, and global energy like nothing else in print."
"Forget isolated tech predictions. Kerrigan’s three-part opus is the only framework you need to understand the incoming collision of AI, genetics, and global infrastructure."
"Kerrigan has accomplished something rare: he has taken the incomprehensible speed of modern technological convergence and made it deeply, fundamentally human. The Metis Imperative leverages the myths of antiquity to explain the crises of tomorrow, resulting in a three-volume masterwork that forces us to ask what it truly means to be human in an engineered world."