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Once upon a time, people wrote stories, and they owned the stories they wrote. But all that changed when Inspiration created its AI language model. The language model was based on all of the language in the world, so it contained every idea anyone had ever written down. Inspiration couldn't take those ideas back out, so they saved up money and bought them. Now they own all the stories.
Kelli Reynolds is a script supervisor for Inspiration - a professional who edits the output of the language model into intelligible stories. Kelli's proudest contribution is the pirate Orlando - a dashing do-gooder based on stories she used to tell friends.
Then Kelli's ex-boyfriend Rowan shows up. Rowan's the one Kelli based Orlando on, when they were teenagers. Back then, their relationship was a secret. Kelli thought at the time that Rowan, a trans man, was a girl. And Inspiration doesn't allow any stories about girls that love girls, or girlfriends that turn out to actually be boyfriends.
Now Rowan's tangled up in the black market, smuggling forbidden stories like the ones Kelli wished she'd had as a teen. He needs Kelli's help with something - something illegal.
Kelli's not sure she wants to be in this story, but she can't let Rowan walk out of her life again. As she becomes entangled in Rowan's scheme, it brings up the long-hidden truth of the disastrous choice that ended their relationship last time around. Kelli has to decide: will she risk the neat story of her life now for the world she wished for then, a world where every necessary story can be told? She asks herself: What would Orlando do?
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is a light SF novel that's simultaneously a poignant queer coming-of-age novel with an autistic main character and a cutting satire about AI in publishing, conglomeration of corporate ownership in media, and censorship and book banning.
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Kelli Reynolds is a script supervisor for Inspiration - a professional who edits the output of the language model into intelligible stories. Kelli's proudest contribution is the pirate Orlando - a dashing do-gooder based on stories she used to tell friends.
Then Kelli's ex-boyfriend Rowan shows up. Rowan's the one Kelli based Orlando on, when they were teenagers. Back then, their relationship was a secret. Kelli thought at the time that Rowan, a trans man, was a girl. And Inspiration doesn't allow any stories about girls that love girls, or girlfriends that turn out to actually be boyfriends.
Now Rowan's tangled up in the black market, smuggling forbidden stories like the ones Kelli wished she'd had as a teen. He needs Kelli's help with something - something illegal.
Kelli's not sure she wants to be in this story, but she can't let Rowan walk out of her life again. As she becomes entangled in Rowan's scheme, it brings up the long-hidden truth of the disastrous choice that ended their relationship last time around. Kelli has to decide: will she risk the neat story of her life now for the world she wished for then, a world where every necessary story can be told? She asks herself: What would Orlando do?
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is a light SF novel that's simultaneously a poignant queer coming-of-age novel with an autistic main character and a cutting satire about AI in publishing, conglomeration of corporate ownership in media, and censorship and book banning.
Ignore All Previous Instructions
Once upon a time, people wrote stories, and they owned the stories they wrote. But all that changed when Inspiration created its AI language model. The language model was based on all of the language in the world, so it contained every idea anyone had ever written down. Inspiration couldn't take those ideas back out, so they saved up money and bought them. Now they own all the stories.
Kelli Reynolds is a script supervisor for Inspiration - a professional who edits the output of the language model into intelligible stories. Kelli's proudest contribution is the pirate Orlando - a dashing do-gooder based on stories she used to tell friends.
Then Kelli's ex-boyfriend Rowan shows up. Rowan's the one Kelli based Orlando on, when they were teenagers. Back then, their relationship was a secret. Kelli thought at the time that Rowan, a trans man, was a girl. And Inspiration doesn't allow any stories about girls that love girls, or girlfriends that turn out to actually be boyfriends.
Now Rowan's tangled up in the black market, smuggling forbidden stories like the ones Kelli wished she'd had as a teen. He needs Kelli's help with something - something illegal.
Kelli's not sure she wants to be in this story, but she can't let Rowan walk out of her life again. As she becomes entangled in Rowan's scheme, it brings up the long-hidden truth of the disastrous choice that ended their relationship last time around. Kelli has to decide: will she risk the neat story of her life now for the world she wished for then, a world where every necessary story can be told? She asks herself: What would Orlando do?
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is a light SF novel that's simultaneously a poignant queer coming-of-age novel with an autistic main character and a cutting satire about AI in publishing, conglomeration of corporate ownership in media, and censorship and book banning.
Kelli Reynolds is a script supervisor for Inspiration - a professional who edits the output of the language model into intelligible stories. Kelli's proudest contribution is the pirate Orlando - a dashing do-gooder based on stories she used to tell friends.
Then Kelli's ex-boyfriend Rowan shows up. Rowan's the one Kelli based Orlando on, when they were teenagers. Back then, their relationship was a secret. Kelli thought at the time that Rowan, a trans man, was a girl. And Inspiration doesn't allow any stories about girls that love girls, or girlfriends that turn out to actually be boyfriends.
Now Rowan's tangled up in the black market, smuggling forbidden stories like the ones Kelli wished she'd had as a teen. He needs Kelli's help with something - something illegal.
Kelli's not sure she wants to be in this story, but she can't let Rowan walk out of her life again. As she becomes entangled in Rowan's scheme, it brings up the long-hidden truth of the disastrous choice that ended their relationship last time around. Kelli has to decide: will she risk the neat story of her life now for the world she wished for then, a world where every necessary story can be told? She asks herself: What would Orlando do?
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is a light SF novel that's simultaneously a poignant queer coming-of-age novel with an autistic main character and a cutting satire about AI in publishing, conglomeration of corporate ownership in media, and censorship and book banning.
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| BN ID: | 2940203365231 |
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| Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
| Publication date: | 03/03/2026 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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