Error 404 - Softcover

Ferrer, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1835744680 ISBN 13: 9781835744680

Publisher: Book Guild Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Thursday 1st September 2039. On the centenary of the Second World War, atheist scientist Chris Deckers exploits the planet’s most powerful computer to reveal something so cataclysmic it makes five thousand years of recorded human history – wars, empires, revolutions, the lot – look like an underwhelming warm-up act.

ERROR 404: GOD NOT FOUND.

Yup. According to the most intelligent intelligence on the planet, the big old guy, as advertised, is a big old lie, dreamt up by Bronze Age shepherds who figured the only way to stop everyone coveting their oxen was to invent a punitive sky parent with an eggshell ego. And they left irrefutable evidence of their shaggy God story behind.

Deckers should be rejoicing as his rational Eden is born. Instead, the baby’s screaming. Civilisation has lost its existential marbles and the God-shaped hole he crowbarred open is being rapidly filled by something far more sinister.

In a race to save humanity’s soul, Deckers must face the one question he never thought to ask.

What if faith matters more than facts?

About this title

About the Author

Richard Ferrer was born in the 1970s, when the cutting edge of computer technology was Speak & Spell. He has spent his thirty-year career as a magazine and newspaper journalist and editor, working for outlets including the Daily Mail and Jewish News. Richard lives in north London with his wife and children. Error 404 is his debut novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1835744680
• ISBN 13: 9781835744680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256