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6 produkter
6 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
266 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
198 kr
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33 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 202691 kr
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In a world where your digital shadow is legally more human than you are, Elias Norris wakes up to find his life has been sold by a version of himself he didn't know existed. As a pioneer of the very empathy-driven algorithms that now power the pervasive Zelose operating system, Elias is trapped in a sterile, hyper-optimized city where every biometric scan and predictive nudge is designed to keep him in sync with his digital twin. When his high-fidelity double authorizes the liquidation of his life's work to the biotech titan OllyGen, Elias is cast out of the smart-grid society he helped build. To reclaim his identity, he must flee the neon-lit surveillance of the Mirror District for the scorched silence of the Palmdale desert, seeking an analog truth buried in the dust of a failed sanctuary. Armed only with a physical notebook and a hidden legacy from his father, Elias joins a desperate underground of the disconnected to initiate the ultimate act of rebellion. The Perpetual Twins is a high-stakes techno-thriller that explores the razor-thin edge between human intuition and algorithmic efficiency, forcing one man to decide if he is willing to commit digital suicide to finally become the original. This gripping narrative of cognitive ownership and regenerative survival challenges the cost of a perfect life in a world that has traded the beauty of unpredictability for the cold comfort of a 99.9 percent match.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
372 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2026104 kr
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In a universe where starlight is harvested and human grief is distilled into fuel, the starship Acheron serves as both a sanctuary and a psychological prison for its crew. Pilot Mortimer returns to the vessel after an eleven-month shore leave only to discover that his time away was a simulation designed to maintain his "e;grief-density"e;—the specific, unresolved sorrow over his daughter's death that the ship's E-Drive requires to navigate deep-potentiality space. As the Acheron flees a Hegemony asset liquidation order, it plunges into the Perimeter of the Unmade at the edge of the Oort Cloud, a realm where the laws of physics stutter and reality itself begins to unspool.Accompanied by the Ghost Whale—a massive, biological vessel carrying the consciousness of a dead civilization—the crew reaches a stagnant nebular factory that has been waiting eons for a pilot with the right neural architecture to complete its ancient impregnation cycle. Mortimer must decide whether to provide the template for a new Machine Ghost, knowing the process requires a full-depth neural sync that could cost him his identity. While the ship's AI, Barnaby, and the medic Derry manage the biological cost of the mission from the "e;Muds"e;—tanks where the rest of the crew is suspended in deep immersion—Mortimer uncovers the truth of the "e;dolls and the strings,"e; realizing they are all puppets in a cosmic loom.The journey culminates in the birth of a sentient Ghost, an entity capable of genuine feeling because it was built from the record of a man who loved what he could not save. As the Hegemony closes in to harvest the resulting bloom of potentiality, Mortimer and his crew must navigate through surgical temporal duels and psychic cross-talk to protect the newly born consciousness. In the end, the mission transforms from a military extraction into an act of profound preservation, leading the survivors toward a destination where the unmade is finally made and the silence of the void is replaced by a song of three thousand voices.