A slow-paced sci-fi novel exploring the tension between Stanley Duncan, a man who has purchased and upgraded a cyborg to beyond human-level intelligence, and his cyborg as they venture out of seclusion into an AI-hating world, touching on moral and spiritual issues of free will and consciousness. Live-streaming a cyborg was a terrible idea. Ever since the Great Layoff of 2030, the police have led a war against artificial intelligence. AI replaced nearly all human jobs—and mankind snapped. Riots tore apart cities, suicides claimed whole families. Civil war seemed inevitable until a strange new drug pacified the nation. When Stanley Duncan let his cyborg livestream at a local supermarket, he unknowingly invited war to his door. Stanley came from a troubled past. Half-insane from years of self-imposed sequestration, he couldn’t bare the loneliness anymore. After purchasing a lab-grown cyborg, he programmed it to surpass human intelligence. As their relationship grew, Stanley rediscovered what it means to love another. All seemed well until his newfound companion ventured beyond the safety of the condo