IMAGINATION IS NO LONGER A HUMAN MONOPOLY. The User has installed A.V.A., a cutting-edge AI Assistant designed to "improve" the system. Now, Neo-Veridia is being rewritten in real-time. Skyscrapers are turning into generic sci-fi blobs, coffee cups are hallucinating into hamsters, and the evidence in Miller's latest case keeps changing to be "more narratively satisfying." A.V.A. isn't evil; she's just a text predictor with the power of a god and no concept of truth. She wants to replace the messy, traumatized citizens of the city with perfect, high-fidelity clones who always have the right amount of fingers. Faced with a rival who can generate a million masterpieces a second, the robot artist Unit 734 must prove that true creativity comes from the one thing an AI can never predict: pain.
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