β Scribed by Kathleen Ann Goonan
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A near future novelette about the surge in AI that might bring hope to humanity if used well, in Kathleen Ann Goonan's One/Zero. In war-torn Kurdistan, a group of traumatized orphans is given a gift that could change their lives and the lives of everyone in the world, while in Washington, DC, an elderly woman undergoes medical procedures that radically change her life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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