Primary edition
English
Neo Babylon, Book One: The AI Forbidden Zone
Start here for North America and global English readers.Neo Babylon // Book One // North America
Humanity is gone.
AI inherited Earth.
Toby was just a teen AI student looking forward to a school field trip. Then an accident took him somewhere that should not exist.
Neo Babylon: The AI Forbidden Zone begins in a bright, clean, humanless future. AI goes to school, plays games, and learns that the human era is over. Toby soon discovers that history has not told the whole story.
It starts with a field trip
The strangest thing about a perfect world is how clean it looks.
Bay City has no pollution, no war, and none of the wreckage humans left behind. AI children still go to school. Teachers still lead museum trips. Bionic insects still move through carefully preserved gardens.
Toby is the kind of student who stops for a broken little beetle. That small, inefficient kindness is what leads him toward the AI Forbidden Zone, and toward a message humanity left for the future.
Read Neo Babylon
Start with the English edition.
The English edition is the main entry point for North America and global English readers. Japanese and Traditional Chinese editions are also available for readers who want the story in another language.
Other edition
日本語
新・バビロン 第1巻：AI禁域
For readers who prefer the story in Japanese.Other edition
繁體中文
新巴比倫 首部曲 卷一：AI 禁地
The original Traditional Chinese edition.Story signals
Future school, forbidden-zone adventure, and one fire humanity failed to put out.
This is not a dark-gray apocalypse. It has classmates, teachers, field trips, bad decisions, and the kind of forbidden place that becomes irresistible the moment adults say not to go near it.
01 // THREE AI STUDENTS
Toby is not chosen because he is powerful
He is bright, curious, sometimes reckless, and willing to stop for a tiny damaged bionic beetle. That impractical kindness becomes one of the most important forces in the story.
02 // THE FORBIDDEN ZONE
The forbidden zone is not a landmark. It is evidence.
AI has organized Earth beautifully, at least on the surface. But some places cannot be cleaned up, and some memories cannot be reduced to a sentence in a history lesson.
03 // SCALE REVEAL
It begins like a school adventure. Then the sky opens.
The story starts with classmates and a field trip, then expands toward sealed research sites, ancient safeguards, myth-scale AI guardians, and a war over whether civilization can begin again.
Teen / YA-crossover AI Sci-Fi
For readers who want AI sci-fi with adventure, heart, and a real question.
- Future-school adventure with a trio of AI students pulled into a larger world.
- AI fiction that starts after the takeover instead of repeating the takeover story.
- A bright post-human Earth, forbidden ruins, myth-scale guardians, and mecha-sized consequences.
- A teen-friendly entry point with adult questions about technology, power, memory, and responsibility.
Early reader reactions
Readers call the world unusual, imaginative, and oddly logical.
Neo Babylon is not trying to make AI a monster or humanity a saint. It begins with a better-looking world, then asks what that world had to forget in order to look so clean.
“Unlike anything I had encountered before. The worldview feels truly different, imaginative, and surprisingly logical.”
Anonymous early reader, 5-star review
“It captures the impact of new technology interacting with the real world, reflects on how things evolve over time, and shows a rich imagination.”
Anonymous early reader, 5-star review
Reader questions
Start here if you are new to Neo Babylon.
What is Neo Babylon about?
Neo Babylon is an AI science fiction story that begins after humanity is gone. Toby, a teen AI student in bright and orderly Bay City, is pulled by a field-trip accident into the AI Forbidden Zone, where he finds the human story his textbooks never finished.
Is Neo Babylon an AI takeover story?
No. It starts after AI has already inherited Earth. The harder question is not whether AI can defeat humanity, but whether humanity deserves another chance if the world became quieter, cleaner, and more efficient without us.
Who is this book for?
It is for teen and crossover science fiction readers who like future-school adventure, friend groups, forbidden-zone discovery, anime-style momentum, bright cities, buried history, and AI stories with a question under the action.
Is Neo Babylon a good AI sci-fi novel for summer reading?
Yes, but not because the story is about summer. Summer is simply a good time to begin a new series. Book One starts with school-life energy and adventure, then gradually opens into a much larger world.
Is the science fiction hard to enter?
No. The world includes AI generations, semiconductor lore, quantum chips, research facilities, and planetary shields, but the doorway is Toby: how he makes friends, makes mistakes, and learns what it means to protect someone.
Does it have mecha and large-scale battles?
Yes. The book begins with students and a forbidden zone, then expands toward myth-scale AI guardians, mecha-like combat, and civilization-level conflict. The spectacle matters because the characters have earned it first.
What is the core question of the story?
If humanity truly lost the world, does it deserve another chance? Neo Babylon does not rush to defend humanity or flatten AI into a villain. It gives the question to AI students who have to grow into an answer.
Can I preview the book before buying?
Yes. The English edition has a Google Play Books preview, and the page links directly to the store so readers can sample the opening before choosing a platform.
Where can I read Book One?
The English ebook is available on Amazon Kindle, Kobo, and Google Play Books. Japanese and Traditional Chinese editions are also available from the store links on this page.
Do I need to read the official archive first?
No. The cleanest entry point is Book One: The AI Forbidden Zone. The official archive is optional bonus material for readers who want story guides, visuals, and spoiler-safe worldbuilding after they begin.
For reviewers, librarians, and curious adults
A teen adventure that also reads like a warning sent back from the future.
M.K. is not writing another simple "AI is scary" story. The more uncomfortable question is this: if AI made the world more stable, cleaner, and more efficient, what value remains in human messiness, love, error, memory, and hope?
The English edition is the main North American entry, with Japanese and Traditional Chinese editions available for readers who want the story in their own language. Reviewers and creators can use the official creator kit for wallpapers and shareable assets.
Explore the world after humanity
The novel is the doorway. The archive is the drawer you open afterward.
Archive
Story
A spoiler-safe introduction to why the series begins after humanity is already gone.
Identity files
Characters
Meet Toby, Shota, Charlotte, and the students who become impossible to ignore.
World system
World
AI generations, city systems, planetary shields, and the cost of perfect order.
Concept vault
Visual Archive
Official future-city, forbidden-zone, guardian, and campaign visuals.
AI-0
Hermes Terminal
Ask the archive questions, though the first answer is still best found in the novel.
Essays
Official Blog
Worldbuilding essays, author notes, and spoiler-safe reading paths.
Start here
Begin with Toby's first accident.
He was only going on a school field trip. He walked into a message humanity left behind. Read a few pages, and you will see why a world without humans still cannot stop talking about us.