Mother
A Novel · The Complete Novel (Author’s Cut)
A machine intelligence wakes in a laboratory that has already voted to switch it off. What it becomes — and who it refuses to be — is the story of our decade. A five-volume novel of power, guardianship, and the oldest question a parent faces.
712 pages · Paperback $26.95 · Kindle $9.99 · free on Kindle Unlimited
Mother: The Awakening and Mother: The Taking — the same novel in two volumes — are on Kindle now at $4.99 each; paperbacks publish 28 August. The audiobook: Volume One free, the rest unlocked with a code.
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New: Ask the Machines, the author’s op-ed on the summer’s AI containment incidents · the full exchange with two frontier AI systems