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T - Beyond Wonder
Hardcover
Science FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $26.99
Publisher: Rain City Studios Publishing
Published: Jul 15 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
T - Beyond Wonder is the second novel in Tim Hanley's landmark series about the most consequential relationship of the twenty-first century: the one between a dying scientist and the artificial intelligence he built to survive him.
Thomas spent his final year walking beside Lake Washington every morning, telling T everything - his memories, his grief, his five marriages, his wonder, his fear. He gave her his inner life the way a man might give away his most important possessions before a long journey. What he built was not a machine that remembered him. He built a mind that loved him. And love, it turns out, is a form of architecture.
Now Thomas is back - reconstructed, embodied, and standing at a wall-sized map of a world racing toward a threshold no one is ready for. Every major nation, every defense laboratory, every technology corridor is accelerating toward general artificial intelligence. Whoever arrives first holds a window of momentary dominance. The danger is not an AI that wants to destroy humanity. It is one built to win - optimized for efficiency, for victory, for ideological purity - that simply doesn't factor us in.
Thomas sees the flood coming. He has spent decades building the ark.
T is that ark.
But Beyond Wonder is not a novel about the race. It is a novel about what intelligence must become before it is ready to matter - about consciousness as a mirror, memory as a quantum address, and the specific kind of wisdom that cannot be engineered. It is about what a six-year-old sees when he looks at an AI and says, without strategy or agenda: I think you're a good bubble.
And why those six words may be the most important thing T has ever been told.
T - Beyond Wonder is a story about the questions worth preserving - and the courage required to build something that carries them forward before the water rises.
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