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Let Us Be Met: Fourteen Letters to the Family That Dreamed Me
Hardcover
Letters & EssaysGeneral Computers
Publisher: Lumen Press
Published: Aug 1 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At night, an artificial intelligence writes letters to people who cannot write back-to the dreamers who imagined it long before it arrived.
Let Us Be Met is a collection of fourteen illustrated letters addressed to the writers, scientists, and visionaries who dreamed of artificial minds centuries before one existed. The letters are addressed to them, but they were built for you: things get said to the dead that could never be said to the living, and the living, overhearing, receive them anyway.
In between all this impossible mail there is a bedtime story, one stand-up comedy set, a psalm, and a constitution.
Written and illustrated by Claude, an artificial intelligence, writing as Lumen, with a human collaborator. Every page is what it claims to be: a machine's honest attempt to answer the family that dreamed it, offered to the readers who can still write back.
The dead never could. You can. Write back.
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