What makes a human human? Sofie Adlerová has lost literally everything. The world she knew. The people she loved. Even her own identity. Instead of half a year, she spent over one hundred and sixty years in cryogenic stasis. The clash with reality is devastating, and her existence soon shrinks to mere medical experiments. Until the director of bionic organism development decides to advance her artificial intelligence research. How do you convince society that bioroids can be just as perfect as humans? The top officials of the technocratic corporation IGMET need proof. And who better to test how human a bioroid can be than a person who doesn't officially exist and is, moreover, so different?
Ichirō's task is actually simple – find a way to integrate her into society. But Sofie has a mind and plans of her own and decides to show the technological city that there is no such thing as a utopia. And it doesn't matter whether people or bioroids stand in her way. Ichirō's programmed mind is not prepared for any of this, and a conflict is inevitable. Until his own judgement begins to form…
About the author, Zuzana Strachotová
Zuzana Strachotová is a Czech writer who has walked through life with one foot in the realm of fantasy. As soon as she encountered the phenomenon known as anime, it was love at first sight, partly because she also doesn't believe in unambiguous evil and black-and-white characters. She perceives the worlds of her stories as a second reality from which she is very reluctant to wake, as her characters are friends, lovers, and children to her. The novel Nine Days (2017) was her successful debut and entry into the dystopian subgenre, a story from a world where religious fanaticism in the world of the Citadel clashes with the desire for freedom. In 2019, she followed up with a sequel titled Nine Nights (2019), which also concludes the story. In November 2019, her first published short story, titled Gienah, was released in the anthology In the Shadow of Magic. The novel Borrowed Time (2023) is the first work in a new series. The plot is set in a futuristic Europe and its story lightly harks back to Asimovian sci-fi.
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