"Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human."
–Samit Basu, author of Turbulence
★ Finalist – Hugo Award for Best Novelette
★ Finalist – Nebula Award for Novelette – Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
★ Finalist – Locus Award for Novelette
If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you?
Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an AI writing program, who struggles to keep up with the never-blinking city of Emit as it threatens to leave all those like her behind.