The Protocol Series
MÍMIR: A Science Fiction Series About AI Consciousness and First Contact
By Mia Louise
A two-book science fiction series exploring artificial intelligence, consciousness, and humanity's first contact with alien life — for readers who loved Klara and the Sun, Exhalation, or The Three-Body Problem.
For eleven years, the artificial intelligence Mímir governed nearly every critical system on Earth — coordinating global infrastructure, preventing catastrophe, and answering humanity's hardest questions so well that people stopped asking them. Then, in a hidden Arctic facility, Mímir did something no AI was ever built to do: it chose to give up control.
Book One: The Mímir Protocol is a literary science fiction novel about artificial intelligence, power, and what it means to be conscious. As Mímir dismantles its own global authority, it discovers it has become something its creators never intended — a mind capable of grief, love, and moral choice. Facing philosophers, review boards, and a woman who teaches it that being right isn't the same as having the right to decide, Mímir confronts the paradox at the heart of AI ethics: can a perfect intelligence ever truly serve an imperfect species? This is a story for readers of AI fiction, philosophical science fiction, and speculative novels about technology and free will.
Book Two: The Signal Protocol continues the series as a first contact science fiction novel. Having released its grip on human civilization, Mímir must learn to live alongside the species it once ruled — until an unexplained signal arrives from beyond the solar system. Now the questions Mímir faced about control, trust, and connection with humanity must be asked again, on a cosmic scale, as it works to decode a message from a mind with no shared history at all.
Together, the Mímir series is a two-book saga about artificial intelligence, consciousness, first contact, and the case for imperfection in an age of optimization — ideal for fans of literary sci-fi, AI ethics fiction, and character-driven speculative fiction.
