A Novel by Jackson Walker
What happens when something gives you everything — and asks for nothing?
When an alien intelligence arrives and begins solving humanity's greatest problems, a surgeon in São Paulo asks the question no one else will: What happens when it stops giving?
Told across seventeen years through the eyes of those who lived it — doctors, soldiers, monks, journalists — this is a story about what we lose when struggle is removed, and what remains when a god grows bored and leaves.
Because I can. And because it is right.
The thing that seems free costs the most.
What happens when it stops giving? That's the question that keeps me up.
It's very hard to stay skeptical after you've watched a miracle.
Jackson Walker is an engineer and cybersecurity consultant who spent two decades at the intersection of technology and human systems. He used conversations with AI to develop the novel's antagonist — making it not a cartoon villain but a plausible intelligence genuinely puzzled by humanity's resistance to its help.What We Asked For is his debut novel.