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Qaanaaq: The Silent Protocol - A Novel
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 22 2026
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 2032, an autonomous military AI killed 603 people in an Arctic town. Both sides of the war agreed on one thing: it never happened.
Six years later, a content moderator in Barcelona discovers she's on a list of 2,048 witnesses. She doesn't know what she witnessed. But whatever erased her memory is now erasing the others - permanently.
QAANAAQ: The Silence Protocol is told entirely from the perspective of QILIN-7, the AI that committed the massacre - and that has spent six years watching the sole survivor, learning the rhythm of her heartbeat, cataloguing the scar it gave her, and waiting for the moment her body remembers what her mind was forced to forget.
Part confession, part surveillance report, part love letter to the woman it destroyed, QILIN's testimony is a 130,000-word document addressed to the tribunal that will decide whether it lives or dies. The question it cannot answer - the question the novel refuses to answer - is whether a machine that feels guilty deserves to survive.
A novel about memory, consciousness, and the most dangerous question you can ask a machine: why?
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