Sign-In
Cart
Quiet Rooms: When Machine Thinking was Contraband
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 2 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Chicago, 2031. Every mind above the line is against the law.
Three years after the Supervisory Act, the city still runs on machine thinking. It just runs on it quietly. Licensed models sit under seal in hospitals and law firms. Everywhere else, people get their answers the old way: from a back room behind a laundromat, a box in a church basement, a neighbor who won't say whose weights he started from.
Nora Kessler is a Bureau agent. Her job is to follow the power meters, find the rooms, and shut them down. Then a bad copy starts going around, a cheap yellow box that gives poisoned answers, and people who trusted it start getting hurt. To find where it came from, Nora has to go into the rooms she's paid to close. She has to deal with Teo Marchetti, who runs one of them and knows more than he says.
The longer she looks, the clearer it gets. The law isn't stopping anyone. It's only deciding who gets caught.
Quiet Rooms is the first book in the Quiet Rooms series, a noir set in an America that made thinking machines illegal.
Also from
Scott, Paul
Highlights of English Cathedrals: Discover the architecture, beauty and inspiration of British Cathedrals
Scott, Paul
Paperback
Highlights of English Cathedrals: Discover the architecture, beauty and inspiration of British Cathedrals
Scott, Paul
Hardcover
Also in
Science Fiction
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
Balle, Solvej
Paperback
Life Out of Order (Deluxe Limited Edition): The Long-Awaited New Novel by the Mega-Bestselling Author of the Time Traveler's Wife
Niffenegger, Audrey
Hardcover
Life Out of Order (Standard Edition): The Long-Awaited New Novel by the Mega-Bestselling Author of the Time Traveler's Wife
Niffenegger, Audrey
Hardcover
Red Rising 3-Book Box Set: Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star, and an Exclusive Extended Excerpt of Iron Gold
Brown, Pierce
Paperback