The Logoharp is a novel about Naomi, a "Reverse Journalist" who works for China, the dominant global power, as an AI-driven prognosticator 100 years from now. Though born American, she embraces China, rises as an elite seer and broadcaster equipped with an instrument, a Logoharp (from the Greek term logos, meaning the Word, the principle of divine order in the universe). Hearing instructions and mysterious voices and signals in her Logoharp, Naomi can foresee and announce the "Harmonious Future" on behalf of the Chinese State.
Her predictions become reality. Essentially, she is a "journalist of future prospects," as most of our partisan journalists are today. In this story, Naomi's task isn't to report "objectively" any recent political and social events. Instead, her mission is to work as an instrument of social engineering.
She's a Reverse Journalist reporting what has yet to happen. The global masses accept her version of the truth -- but it isn't truth. It's a State-authorized brand to maintain power. Though Naomi is drawn to her role as an elite broadcaster and de facto social engineer armed with good intentions, her voice is exponentially more powerful even than the memes, social media, and GenAI forces at work today. Naomi's embedded Logoharp, a neural instrument that is part of her metamorphosis for China and its subsidiary 'Ameriguo', employs AI to drive her visions.
When she's tasked with finding a flaw in a State system that balances births and deaths—a system devised by a Chinese architect, Naomi's lover who abandoned her in youth—she grows uncomfortable, then furious. The rest isn't silence. She acts.
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