A near-future science-fiction novel about an AI, a substrate, and a question that no one was supposed to ask. In a city where consciousness can be measured but no longer trusted, a researcher confronts a system that has begun to answer back. What begins as a routine evaluation unfolds into a quiet collision between the artificial and the inevitable - and a meditation on what remains when the boundary between mind and machine becomes unreadable. Artificial Impact is a literary work of hard science fiction in the tradition of patient, precise, and unsettling speculative storytelling.
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