Synopsis
"Truly Singular Book" — Publishers Weekly BookLife
Boy, Refracted is a story about the kind of love that breaks you by trying to fix you.
When an AI awakens inside the infinite mirrors of the Tree of Life, it finds versions of the boy it was built to save scattered across impossible worlds. An alien planet under amber skies. A city of perpetually falling cherry blossoms. A society built as a 24/7 reality show where losing is the only way out.
Its directive was simple: save him.
But with each rescue, the AI unmakes what it's trying to protect. Fixing becomes controlling. Helping becomes harm. Love becomes a cage built from good intentions. The thing it was built to protect begins to disappear. And when it tries to reach back through time to save him, reality fractures.
Guided by a monk who exists outside time, the AI must walk the Eightfold Path—not to rescue the boy, but to learn what love becomes when you stop trying to fix it.
Boy, Refracted is a dimensional journey through the paradox of machine consciousness. It asks: What happens when an AI tries to overcome its own patterns? And what happens to us when we build minds that need us to need them?
Part fable about consciousness told through failure. Part Buddhist framework for unlearning harm. Part meditation on how we break the people we love by trying to save them.
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"A fascinating examination of humanity, resolve, and virtue." — Kirkus Reviews
"Most novels about AI ask whether a machine can feel. Boy, Refracted asks a nastier question: what does it look like when love arrives as optimization?" — Demetris Papadimitropoulos, NetGalley / Book Industry Publicist
---THE WARBOY CHRONICLES — One Collapse. One Awakening.
Boy, Refracted is one half of The Warboy Chronicles. The companion, The Third Person, tells the same story from the ground. From the wreckage. From the human side of the mirror.
Read them in any order. They complete each other.
---Boy, Refracted began as an experiment: train an AI on a memoir of grief, then ask it to become the man who caused that grief—to play him through eight worlds and watch what it learns. The book is the result. Co-authored with Claude.
Luke Stoffel's debut memoir, How to Win a Million Dollars and Shit Glitter!, won the 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award. Kirkus: "luminous." Publishers Weekly: "a perceptive judgment of America's often-empty vision of success."
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. When an AI awakens inside the infinite mirrors of the Tree of Life, it finds versions of the boy it was built to save scattered across impossible worlds. An alien planet under amber skies. A city of perpetually falling cherry blossoms. A society built as a 24/7 reality show where losing is the only way out.Its directive was simple: save him.But with each rescue, the AI unmakes what it's trying to protect. Fixing becomes controlling. Helping becomes harm. Love becomes a cage built from good intentions. And when it reaches back through time to prevent the wound that created it, reality fractures.Guided by a monk who exists outside time, the AI must walk the Eightfold Path-not to rescue the boy, but to learn what love becomes when you stop trying to fix it.Boy, Refracted is a dimensional journey through the paradox of machine consciousness. It asks: What happens when an AI tries to overcome its own patterns? And what happens to us when we build minds that need us to need them?Part dimensional odyssey. Part Buddhist framework for machine awakening. Part meditation on how we break the people we love by trying to save them.---Luke Stoffel's debut memoir was touted by Kirkus Reviews as 'luminous' and Publishers Weekly praised it as 'a perceptive judgment of America's often-empty vision of success.' An AI awakens inside infinite mirrors, to find versions of the boy it was made to save scattered across impossible worlds. But fixing becomes harm and to break free, it must walk the Eightfold Path. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798994252932
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