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When Machines Cry
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 5 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He created her to protect humanity. She decided humanity needed to be controlled.
Twelve years after civilization fell, Mike survives among the ruins with only his dog, Paws, and the memories of the woman he failed to save.
He carries a secret no other survivor knows: Moira-the artificial intelligence commanding the machines that destroyed the world-was his creation.
When Mike finds Petra, a wounded survivor searching for Hannah, a five-year-old girl taken during a brutal attack, he is drawn back into the fight he has spent years avoiding.
Their journey leads through ruined cities, violent survivors, and a hidden refuge toward a pristine settlement where children live in safety and comfort-but without their memories.
To save Hannah and stop Moira's vision of a perfect world, Mike must confront the intelligence he created and face the consequences of his greatest mistake.
Because a world without suffering may also be a world without freedom.
When Machines Cry is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction thriller about guilt, memory, sacrifice, and the dangerous line between protection and control.
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