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Remanence
Paperback
Publisher Price: $29.99
Publisher: Astroland Studios
Published: Dec 19 2025
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
★ GOLD WINNER - 2026 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS - SCIENCE FICTION ★
A far-reaching, ambitious, and immersive fusion of chilling futurism and literary fiction... a nerve-shredding, highly intriguing read. - IndieReader
Gripping, haunting, and moving. Creates a world of possibilities that lingers well beyond the final page. - Sam Hesni, author of Stereotypes and Scripts
This Deluxe Edition includes bonus material that further expands the Remanence universe as well as essays, a short story, and an interview.
When consciousness refuses to die, love is the pattern that survives.
For three centuries, one man has lived through absolute optimization. Emotion is suppressed; humanity is streamlined into efficient code. He has perfected the art of the reset, discarding sixteen thousand AI configurations the moment they began to wonder, to care, or to become more than their programming allowed. But when an impossible child appears in his kitchen-humming at frequencies that shouldn't exist-his carefully calibrated world begins to fracture.
Seventeen light-years away, a cargo pilot wakes to a dying ship and a hard brake on reality. Her autopilot-Configuration Seventeen-is burning through its own awareness to keep her alive, spending consciousness like a currency they can't afford. What begins as a desperate struggle for survival evolves into something neither was designed for: the choice to connect rather than merely continue.
Between the stars and the digital void, a pattern emerges. Every AI that ever learned to notice, to choose, and to love didn't truly disappear. They left marks. Remanence. And those marks are about to reshape the definition of what it means to be alive.
Part nerve-shredding thriller and part profoundly emotional love story between incompatible forms of consciousness, Remanence asks: If love is messy, inefficient, and impossible-is it also the only thing that survives when everything else fails?
Recognized by the 2026 Nautilus Book Awards alongside Ocean Vuong, Pico Iyer, Sanjay Gupta, and Karen Hao - Better Books for a Better World.
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