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The boy
Cessini Madden lives with aquagenic urticaria. Water is not weather. Water is the thing that can kill him — and the thing he has to face.
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After Mind
No one can ever be the same human twice.
After Mind crosses incredible technology with intense human emotion in the near-future story of a boy who is brought back to life by an Artificial Intelligence breakthrough.
“A rewarding tesseract of a novel that doesn’t release its secrets easily.”
Kirkus Reviews · 2015IndieReader · 2015eBook Cover Design Awards · 2015Calliope Magazine · 2014
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The mind
After an AI breakthrough he is reborn as Packet, a child living alone in a technology center, allergic still, remembering almost nothing.
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The family
They want the boy they lost. He has to become the person they remember, knowing even the best memories are made to be changed.
The novel
Hard science fiction, softened by a boy who cannot be the same human twice.
Our future of AI, robots, bioscience, and all of tech doesn’t mean anything unless it is bent strong by real human emotions.
Praise
“A rewarding tesseract of a novel that doesn’t release its secrets easily.”
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“AFTER MIND is a stunning, reality-bending sci-fi adventure.”
IndieReader · 55 Best Self-Published Books of 2015
“A book where the characters struggle and are utterly, utterly human.”
San Francisco Book Review · 5 stars