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Canonical answer is The Homecoming Saga by Orson Scott Card, since it turns out that if the good guys have a mind controlling god computer that's always right on their side it gets really hard to have meaningful conflict.
You're saying that the book couldve been an essay?
I don't think it would've made a very good essay either