{"product_id":"artificial-paperback","title":"Artificial - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCw Briar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAngela R. Watts\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLily Wasielewski\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe were so concerned about AI taking over the world, we forgot to protect something much more vulnerable: our humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCW Briar combines his technical background with imaginative, unsettling storytelling to examine the potential horrors of AI. Four stories, four explorations of being at the mercy of something that knows everything about us yet doesn't understand what it means to exist, to be alive, to fear, or to die. The terrors and madness are real even if the thing creating them is ARTIFICIAL.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"CW Briar's version of Black Mirror is beautiful and brutal, as classic as the best Twilight Zone episodes and as bleak as your most skin-crawling nightmare. ARTIFICIAL will make you want to weep and scream into the void simultaneously. I couldn't get enough.\" - \u003cem\u003eSam Rebelein, Bram Stoker Award-Nominated Author of Edenville \u0026amp; The Poorly Made\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I'm going to make you pay my therapy bills.\" - \u003cem\u003eCW Briar's mom after reading ARTIFICIAL \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Blood and oil, fingerprints of flesh and pixels.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAutogenerated suicide epistles.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFaces peeled from skulls by cutthroat zeroes and ones.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDreams disemboweled into mouths of corporate funds.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLabor pains of human experience gave birth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eto usurpers, mutants parasitizing worth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur creations, butchered and glued, homunculus, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003etheir souls, fetid roadkill on the path to progress.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe manufactured madness and devastation, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eturned reality into hallucination.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForgive or forsake, we lost our humanity, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003enot to computers but to curiosity.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750153257248,"sku":"9781964645001","price":14.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d10685d9f26270ad487088c1bce388aa.webp?v=1779944484","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/artificial-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}