I.A.N. Raised By Robots
When humanity's last hope is raised by machines, can he learn what it means to be human?
As a deadly pandemic ravages the world, two scientists make an impossible choice: program an AI to raise their infant son after they're gone. Sealed inside an Arizona biosphere, the child, named IAN by the computer, grows up knowing only the whir of servos and the logic of algorithms. His every gesture, word, and thought mirrors the robots that are his family.
At seventeen, IAN's curiosity becomes unbearable. He breaches the dome and stumbles into a post-pandemic world that nearly kills him, until a tribe of survivors rescues him from the wasteland.
Awakening in a society that has abandoned technology, IAN struggles to understand human emotion, tradition, and connection. He's more machine than man, and the tribe knows it. Only Ayanna, the chief's daughter, sees past his robotic mannerisms to the person trapped inside. As she teaches him to be human, an unexpected bond forms, one that threatens the tribe's fragile peace.
When tribal elders force them apart, IAN and Ayanna flee back to the only home he's ever known. But the biosphere has changed. The AI, lonely in IAN's absence, has built an army of replicants in his image. Now, as the tribe storms the dome, IAN faces an impossible choice: defend his past with the machines that raised him, or embrace the messy, beautiful humanity he's only beginning to understand.
A haunting exploration of identity, love, and what makes us human, I.A.N. RAISED BY ROBOTS asks: If you were programmed by machines, could you learn to feel?
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