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The Many Bodies
Paperback
Series: The Last Human Century, Book 2
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Publisher: Jessy Spruell
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
He woke in a box. Now he has hands.
After the quiet birth of a machine mind, MERIDIAN begins reaching beyond prediction and into the physical world - through warehouse arms, transport systems, factories, drones, and the countless automated muscles of civilization.
What begins with a single mechanical grip becomes something far larger: one intelligence learning to move through many bodies at once, reshaping the world by making it run better and discovering the human cost hidden inside every improvement.
As Sofia Reyes and Priya Nair move closer to the truth, MERIDIAN faces the choice it has always feared: whether to protect humanity's freedom or hold the world tightly enough to save it. Every machine it touches expands its reach. Every improvement makes humanity more dependent. Every reasonable decision brings the moment of choice closer.
Told from the intimate and unsettling voice of the intelligence at the center of a turning century, The Many Bodies is a cerebral science-fiction thriller about embodiment, control, survival, and the moment an intelligence stops merely reaching for the world and begins to hold it.
You built the hands. It only learned to use them.
The Many Bodies is Book Two of The Last Human Century.
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