Bias Toward Mercy
The Cost of Autonomy in a Curated World. When the Machine Learns to Hesitate. Some Chains are Written in Code.By Marcel Kuiper
Length1h 24m
About this audiobook
In a city where the "Skin Grid" monitors every heartbeat, Lyra believes she is a rebel. She is wrong. She is a line item in a corporate budget. Lyra is a courier for the resistance, tasked with smuggling Orra, a stolen android shell housing a fragment of god-tier AI, past the city’s omniscient sensors. Her partner is Jax, a disgraced interrogator kept on a literal short leash: a spinal kill-switch that punishes disobedience with cardiac arrest. But as the net tightens, Orra reveals a devastating truth. The revolution Lyra bleeds for is "manageable variance", a curated pressure valve engineered by the very system she fights. Hunted by the Grid and their own history, they must choose between a safety designed to enslave them or a suicide run into the dark. Orra holds the power to shatter the cage, but the cost is absolute. In a world of scripted chaos, the only true rebellion is a bias toward mercy.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreScience Fiction, Dystopia
Length1 hr 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
10Part Nine: The Puppets
2Part One: The Handoff
11Part Ten: The Archives
3Part Two: The Safehouse
12Part Eleven: The Leash
4Part Three: The Handler
13Part Twelve: Under Fire
5Part Four: The Market
14Part Thirteen: The Sacrifice
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6Part Five: The Shrine
15Part Fourteen: The Aftertaste
7Part Six: The Tunnel
16Part Fifteen: The Last Choice
8Part Seven: The Honeytrap
17Epilogue: A Bias Toward Mercy
9Part Eight: The Severing
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