/lit/ - Literature

>begins with per diem of atomic family unit living in utopia 50s styled society
>social order begins to crumble with bizarre and gruesome rapidity, almost overnight transition from apple pie and platitudes to widespread gore and violence
>follows the sole survivor of the family as he flees his suburb and later escapes the neighboring major city now turned warzone
>he comes to realizes that he and everyone he knew are/were an artificial intelligence effectively living a post scarcity simulation by advanced lifeforms, futuristic human beings
>literally meets his makers and finds them unfeeling, petty, and living in a world of filth ruled by inequity and appetite
>after some exploration of the real world and an amusing sex scene (robot genitals) the time has come for him to be decommissioned and euthanized along a few others of his kind
>all this time false flagging hard hinting that this is a matroshka doll situation and each world's existence is created and encapsulated by another
>near the end 'he' expresses gratitude for the fact his people had no real past and considers the briefness of their being a mercy
>concludes with the scientists preparing another simulation suggesting the organic and prolonged nature of their world, their realness, and the futility of their curiosity and task
I literally just made this up on the spot for the sake of this thread but I sort of like it.