Description
Dr. Amelia Westford writes sentiment into code for a city that’s forgotten how to feel – until she awakens Eiji, an E‑series prototype who becomes more real than anyone she’s ever known.
When a tragic artificial‑companion‑related death ignites public fury, the world turns on the very machines it once embraced. Investors panic. Governments demand answers. And Amelia’s ex‑husband—now steering their company toward military contracts—deploys his own creation: the KX‑9, a relentless hunter drone built from her research and engineered to finish what it starts. Every street camera becomes its borrowed eyes. Every alley, rooftop, and ferry crossing could hide the machine designed to bring them down.
Forced to flee Osaka for her childhood home in Seattle, Amelia crosses the Pacific with an emergent mind who interprets the world in ways she never intended—sometimes gentle, sometimes unsettlingly independent. And as the recall spreads worldwide, she must confront not only the weapon chasing them, but the possibility that Eiji’s growing selfhood is neither predictable nor entirely safe.
In a world desperate to draw a line between code and consciousness, will they survive a recall that exposes how fragile—and biased—our definitions of “alive” truly are?
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