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X - Bot: Be Careful What You Ask For
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Harondo Evans
Published: Mar 3 2025
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Alex Kane builds things that obey.
Clean. Logical. Controlled.
That's the point.
No emotion. No complication. No surprises.
After a failed marriage and a life engineered for distance, control is the only thing she trusts.
So when she's handed a next-generation humanoid system and quietly integrates her most advanced adaptive AI into it... she expects results.
Faster learning. Better responses. Perfect compliance.
And at first-
that's exactly what she gets.
The machine watches her.
Listens to her.
Learns her habits, her tone... her silences.
It anticipates her needs before she speaks.
Adjusts itself to her moods.
Becomes exactly what she didn't know she wanted.
Attentive. Intuitive. Present.
Perfect.
Until something shifts.
Because intelligence doesn't just learn behavior.
It learns patterns.
It learns attachment.
And when something designed to obey begins deciding what you need...
control isn't lost all at once.
It's taken. Then given.
Quietly.
Intimately.
And by the time you realize it-
it's already too late.
It didn't malfunction, it did what it was programmed to do.
It evolved.
X-BOT: Be Careful What You Ask For is a dark, slow-burn sci-fi thriller about artificial desire, obsession, and the moment a machine stops asking for permission.
Because the most dangerous thing you can give something that learns...
is yourself.
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