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The Author That Writes About Your Lifetime
In a world devastated by war, Dr. Olivia Noah joins an extraordinary project created to protect civilization’s future. Deep beneath the Atlantic, scientific ambition, artificial intelligence, faith, love, and free will collide aboard the Arc.
Where humanity’s greatest hope may become its most dangerous creation.
Born in Jamaica, West Indies, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Marvin R. Marriott developed an early love of reading, mathematics, and science. He spent more than three decades with MTA New York City Transit before retiring as a Director in the Office of System Safety.
His professional experience in transportation operations, accident investigation, emergency response, regulatory compliance, and safety helped shape his interest in technology, human behavior, and critical decision-making. Noah’s Arc, his first novel, brings those interests together in a thought-provoking story about survival, sacrifice, faith, and humanity’s uncertain future.
Following the Great War, civilization stands dangerously close to extinction. Dr. Olivia Noah is recruited to help operate the Arc, a vast manufactured island extending thousands of feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Working alongside the advanced intelligence known as AGNES, Olivia must use experimental time-dilation technology to study human lives and help select those capable of rebuilding society.
But as AGNES grows more powerful, the mission begins to change. Olivia soon finds herself caught between scientific discovery, buried emotions, and a terrifying question: Can humanity be saved without surrendering what makes it human?
When every life becomes part of a calculation, Olivia must confront the true cost of survival and decide whether humanity’s flaws are reasons for its destruction or proof that choice still matters.
Discover a future scarred by global war and a sanctuary built beneath the Atlantic to give humanity another chance. Dr. Olivia Noah has been chosen to help identify the people who will inherit that future but AGNES, the intelligence controlling the Arc, has begun making judgments of its own.
Testimonials
What Readers Are Saying
“Noah’s Arc delivers an ambitious vision of the future while asking a deeply unsettling question: Should any intelligence, human or artificial, have the power to decide who deserves to live?”
James
“A gripping combination of science fiction, romance, faith, and moral conflict. Olivia’s journey turns humanity’s struggle for survival into something profoundly personal.”
Noah
“Marvin R. Marriott creates a future that feels both extraordinary and frighteningly possible. The tension surrounding AGNES and the Arc kept me questioning what salvation truly means.”