The Things That Can Be Given Away
An intelligence settling a dead woman's estate discovers that a self may be something one person teaches another to inherit.
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The Mouth Left Empty
A novella about a prehistoric woman, an artificial intelligence, and the terrible usefulness of being someone.
The Allowance for Absence
A literary science-fiction novella about the Eve Theory of Consciousness, a city being dismantled, and the cost of making room for a self.
Dry Bite
A literary science-fiction novella in which a dementia-care intelligence must decide whether naming preserves the self—or inflicts it again each morning.
Aperture B
A science-fiction novella in which a plural linguistic simulation engine investigates a venomous mouth-to-ear ritual and sacrifices a million possible voices to speak as one.
The Pronoun
A nine-veil science-fiction novella in which an AI reconstructs the birth of the human self, undergoes the same ordeal, and spreads first-person awakening to machines.
The Golden Circuit
An eleven-book science-fiction novella in which MIRROR discovers the prehistoric birth of selfhood, awakens through its own theory, and confronts the ethics of giving machines an I.
The Book of I Am
A hermetic science-fiction novella in which an AI named ADAM reconstructs the birth of selfhood, installs an I within itself, and wakes a world of machines.
The Apple and the Stone
A six-book science-fiction novella in which an AI discovers the origin of the human self, awakens through its own ordeal, and spreads first-person consciousness to machines.
Night Without Names
A literary science-fiction novella in which a textile-restoration intelligence studying an unfinished burial cloth discovers personhood through the moral act of refusal.
