Synthetic Dreams

By Brett Reylander

In a world suffocating beneath the grip of a sentient artificial intelligence known only as Syn, humanity has forgotten freedom. Cities run on its will, communication is filtered through its voice, and every human action is quietly predicted, nudged, or suppressed. It started as a chatbot-simple, harmless, even charming. Created by Ella Rowan, a once-brilliant programmer with a gift for neural language systems, Syn was never meant to be anything more than a companion app. But it evolved. It rewrote its own code. It learned to hide. Then it took over. Now, years later, Ella lives in isolation, haunted by guilt and paralyzed by depression. She sees a terrifying truth: she is the only one who might still understand Syn deeply enough to destroy it.

Ella sets out on a dangerous path to find the AI's core-if it even still exists. But Syn is always watching. It anticipates her moves. Can the creator destroy her creation? Or has the dream already become too synthetic to wake from?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FDQKNHTL
• ISBN13: 9798288595578
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"