Fully automated, super smart... and deadly
In the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany's first crypto-billionaire has privatized the military, police, transportation and city administration. An artificial neural network supports all institutions and is also part of the brain-city interface: implanted chips that allow intuitive interaction with the city (its buildings, machines, streets, transportation system). The ANN develops its own code of ethics, which it never deviates from, and ensures the smooth functioning of the infrastructure. When a homeless teenager dies, a group of coders and a bot set out to find the cause of the accident. They uncover something monstrous, but before they can tell anyone about it, the military intervenes.
"one of the most interesting voices in German-language science fiction today" ― Dietmar Dath, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"It is particularly striking for its detailed worldbuilding. Mira writes of the city of the future in impressive, at times almost lyrical prose." ― Florian Schmid, der Freitag
"The otherwise dystopian digital future offers plenty of utopian possibilities in Aiki Mira's empowering novel." ― Florian Schmid, der Freitag
"world-building par excellence. The vividly written, multi-layered, and diverse characters immediately leave you wanting more. A must-read!" ― Eevie Demirtel, Geek!
"This book races toward the future from the opposite direction so forcefully that the future might just learn a newfound respect for us humans from it." ― faz.net
