Even if it’s not a human. My name is Testa. I was created as a weapon repair robot, or at least I think so. Me and my master Haru, is on this journey at the Earth, where most humanity have disappeared. For some reason, the free-spirited Haru keeps assigning me tasks like cooking, laundry, and other chores. "From today on, you’re a maid robot, Testa." What a terrible joke. Yet, I’m certain that my true purpose is to dedicate the rest of my life to my master. AIMD—Artificial Intelligence Mental Disorder, a mental illness arising from logical self-contradictions. It’s a terminal illness unique to AI. The disease is eating away my body. Life is never eternal. So, Haru, let me stay with you until the very end.
A visionary sci-fi road novel across a war-torn wasteland. In a distant future, the continent’s two great powers wage war along a vast border stretching from east to west. All the soldiers are robots. Amid the chaos, two such robots named Matthew and Garcia cruise the frontlines in a beat-up truck. Their job is collecting scrap. Their hobby? Broadcasting a 24-hour radio show for fellow soldier units. "This is the Far East Go West Channel, reporting from the battlefield. We’re Matthew and Garcia, enjoying our carefree road trip while shells fly and robots tear each other apart." One day, they encounter something impossible: a human girl named Mariabell, wandering a battlefield where no humans remain. Thus begins the strange journey of two robots and one girl, headed for the far western reaches she calls home.
Yani is a Godsinger, a special class of people who can link themselves to the AI gods that watch over her world and hear them when they speak. She loves her god, Imon, more than life. When her status as a Godsinger is threatened by a surprise arranged marriage, Yani must choose how far she's willing to go to keep hearing Imon's voice every day.
When all over Earth, chunks of reality start disappearing from existence in mysterious events known as extirpations, Dr. Ken Soma finds himself at a crossroads: should he divulge the fate of the world, or keep it to himself? His ex-wife, Dr. Irina Alexandrova, Russian expat, decides for him when she reaches the same conclusion, and publishes her findings for the world to see: within a year, the extirpations will swallow the Earth. With sinister forces at play, will Ken and his family be able to work together to unravel the mystery surrounding the extirpations before the cataclysm is at hand?