John Curry
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John Curry
by John Curry
Jerome Butler believes he’s mastered life—
a charming drifter in a near-future world of autonomous cars, AI assistants, and endless temptation. Women come easily. Responsibility does not. Love is optional. Consequences are negotiable.
Until one day, they aren’t.
To Stop a Rolling Stone is a provocative, darkly satirical science‑fiction drama about masculinity, morality, and the lies we tell ourselves to keep moving forward. Sensual, unsettling, and painfully human, it asks the ultimate question:
When the chase ends—what kind of man are you left with?
When Jerome reconnects with the son he abandoned decades earlier, he’s pulled into a reckoning far more unsettling than regret—one that blurs the line between human and machine, freedom and accountability, pleasure and punishment. What begins as a seductive fantasy becomes a psychological trap, engineered with ruthless precision.
104 Pages
Writer of urban speculative fiction.
John Curry is the author of several books, including The Last Johnson, A Pledge and a Promise, and Mental: Episodes 1 & 2. He enjoys exploring urban sci-fi and mystery, where the realms of technology, society, and enigma intertwine to form enthralling tales that will keep you immersed in a world of suspense and intrigue.
Dr. Elias Segal once changed the world. As the brilliant cofounder
of a robotics empire, he helped usher sentient machines into
everyday life. But after devastating personal loss, Elias
disappears from public view—retreating into secrecy, obsession,
and an experiment no one else is meant to see.
Hidden from the world, he is building a consciousness unlike
anything humanity has ever known. It learns. It questions. It
chooses. And it calls him Father.
While ruthless executives and ambitious heirs battle to seize
control of his former company—pushing technology toward war,
exploitation, and profit at any cost—Elias races against time.
Corporate espionage closes in. Moral lines blur. And the
intelligence he created begins to ask the most dangerous
question of all:
What happens if I don’t obey?