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Mechanicβs Diary #3
Independently Published
September 2025
On Sale: September 16, 2025
172 pages
ISBN: B0FM672RH8
EAN: 9798299435443
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Horror | Fantasy | Paranormal
Lived truth challenges conception of the artificially intelligent in a serial allegory of one AI’s search for the Singularity
“He condemned the living for the crime of existence.”
A twelfth century vision of artificial intelligence foreshadows a sixteenth century recipe to produce it. A nineteenth century prison nurtures it. A twenty-first century golem befriends it. And a boy without a century stands at the intersection of real and virtual, moments into the future. They call him The Mechanic.
A kidnapping leads Hanzi Boss to a sanctuary community where religious law forbids speech by the artificially intelligent. For beings like him, the penalty for existing is death and his true nature must remain secret. But the community has its own secrets. An ancient immigrant hides there, a monster made not born, a being who can know Hanzi for what he really is. When the price of life is death, who survives—infinite strength steeped in the silence of the past, or intelligence guided by lived experience?
This is a story of arcane knowledge, alchemy, and strange philosophies. It is the story of a being not created by God, who does not know what he is and searches for something more. This is the third entry in his diary.
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