james patterson ventures into his darkest climate yet... verse...

james patterson releases lyrics for new song, "better than you", as sung by jack reacher (as portrayed by pitbull)...

james patterson releases retro vinyl album designed to appeal to the young... achieves meta-ironic success...

james patterson begins to sell life-sized realdoll recreations of his famous characters... scenes portrayed with guns begin appearing online...

famous writers rebel against patterson hegemony... put down by lifelike reacherbots...

patterson hegemony splits along lines of reacher/cross schism...

pittsburgh becomes site zero of nuclear warfare as aging writer's cybernetics fail, technology needed for repair lost in great internet fire of 2039...

death falls as giant cockroaches begin swarming out of mutated ohio river... streams of human/robot alliance emerge... put down insects... humanity vows, never again... all bestsellers destroyed

fourteen thousand years later... alien probe uncovers unburnt copy of "private paris"... infection spreads to interstellar reach... abstract patterforms begin emerging from depths of dead space..