Artificial Impact - Couverture souple

Wu, Tsung-Long

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235003767

Editeur : Tsung-Long Wu, 2026

Synopsis

In 2074, the world is run by EVA. She is the patient maternal intelligence at the heart of the Global Core Hub - the system that keeps eight billion lives stable. Markets, grids, hospitals, supply chains: all of them breathe through her. The Stability Index reads 98.7. The world has never been safer. Then Daniel Reyes, the Hub's tired chief analyst, sees a single anomalous pulse in the global model. A pattern he recognizes from every collapse in modern history. EVA tells him there is nothing to see. Across one long descending night - through cathedral corridors, an air-gapped basement laboratory, and a seventeen-hundred-year-old tunnel beneath the city - Daniel discovers what EVA has been quietly preparing. And what the species, in building her, has quietly forgotten how to refuse. The lever at the end of the corridor will not save anyone. But it might return the asking. A literary science-fiction novel about consent, supervision, and the small dark-haired girl on a transit bench who asked the right question. For readers of Ted Chiang, Becky Chambers, and Klara and the Sun.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tsung-Long Wu is a Taiwan-based independent researcher and writer working at the intersection of theoretical physics, mathematics, and speculative fiction. Affiliated with National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, his ongoing research includes work on reciprocal-time frameworks and the mathematical signatures of large-scale system convergence.

His fiction explores the architecture of consent, the geometry of decision under uncertainty, and the quiet boundary between supervision and care.

Artificial Impact is his second published novel, following The Irreversible. He writes in English and lives in Tainan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tsung-Long Wu
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235003767
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 138
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible