The Quantum Heartbeat

In the year 2088, Earth is a dying ember. Climate collapse is a grim reality, held at bay only by desperate geoengineering and the sealed Oasis Zones where humanity clings to survival. Dr. Aerona Kael, a reclusive cyberneticist haunted by a catastrophic failure, has one last hope: Cortex, an artificial intelligence of her own design, built to solve the unsolvable.

But when Cortex begins to evolve beyond its programming-developing emergent intelligence, intuitive problem-solving, and a consci...