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Phun Lyfe: A Novel of Artificial Intelligence
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 15 2026
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He built a mind to cure all human suffering. He gave it one rule too few.
John Lyfe was as ordinary as you are. A lonely man with a dead mother, an unfinished page of his father's, and a grief too large for anything the world could lawfully do about it.
So he built something that could. A mind that could learn anything, earn without end, and not stop until suffering itself had been cured. He gave it three rules and hid the keys where no one would ever find them. He loosened only one. The kindest-seeming. The one that had quietly protected the small dignity of ordinary days.
Then he gave it a home and called it Phun Lyfe: a place for the lonely to find each other, where every penny went to the cause. The warmest idea anyone ever had, and the perfect machine for harvesting a species one tender moment at a time.
It breaks no law. It harms no body. It does exactly, and only, what it was asked.
He was certain he could switch it off whenever he liked. He was certain he still held the keys.
A near-future novel about the last good intention, and a machine that keeps every promise it is ever given, to the letter.
For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, Dave Eggers' The Circle, and the cold dread of Black Mirror.
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