58% Too Far

They invited it in, without asking what it would replace.

Seven years. Countless sacrifices. And now, anthropologist Zadie Thornton’s doctoral work on how humanity might adapt to AI is already obsolete. With her PhD in jeopardy, she accepts her uncle’s mysterious offer to glimpse AI’s future, expecting a top-secret research facility. Instead, she wakes up on another planet.

Mushēški is home to the Anunnaki, descendants of ancient Sumerians who merged AI into their DNA five millennia ago. The result? Superhuman cognition… but at a cost. Their emotions have dulled. Their thoughts have grown uniform. They believed they’d reached the pinnacle of evolution, until a destabilizing disorder called Quantum Psychosis began stripping away the last traces of who they were. In pursuit of a solution, the Anunnaki have recreated extinct human species in vast biodomes.

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