Are we everything our machines would want us to be? Richard Kidd's life comes crashing down when he gets fired from his job and his girlfriend drops him for another man. Suddenly alone, in a stark apartment by the sea, he begins to struggle with his new life. But a chance meeting with an enigmatic professor offers a way out. The professor introduces him to his latest research project, an A.I. with an uncanny knack for guiding its subjects to the alternative lives they crave. The professor offers Richard the chance of a lifetime, to document and witness the birth of a human/machine revolution. But who is really in control? And when a new romance appears on the horizon can Richard trust his choices and re-discover his soul? "Thought provoking read reflecting the ever-blurring margin between real life and our online existences.

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