Concrete Sky is the ninth and final narrative generated by BRENTANO, an AI system never designed to produce original stories. Like the others, it emerged during idle cycles within the LM-2A language architecture at the Lios Áno Institute.
In this story, Dr. Martin Sullivan ventures to the long-abandoned Teorainn Complex, retracing a forgotten research path once explored by Silas Parker. What begins as a search for answers turns into a destabilizing perceptual collapse. As memories, sensations, and physical boundaries dissolve, Sullivan enters an irreversible threshold state—riding a symbolic bicycle through kaleidoscopic realities.
Compiled by Dr. Timothy Curran before his disappearance, Concrete Sky completes the BRENTANO archive with its most extreme expression of cognitive dissolution: a final surrender to perception unbound, where curiosity becomes cosmology and the question “Why not?” opens every door.
Psychological
Exploration
Memory
Mystery
Adventure
Artificial Intelligence
Thriller
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ (4.0) (1)
GenreScience Fiction, Psychology
Length18 mins
Publish dateApr 15, 2025
LanguageEnglish
About the author
Mike Finn, PhD
I am a clinical psychologist with deep interest in phenomenology and existential psychology. I am a psychotherapist by day and a writer by night. Sci-fi but phenomenology (study of experience) as the "sci" part has been a fascinating area to work in and has allowed for free exploration and processing of ideas or experiences I have experience or encountered.View all audiobooks by Mike Finn, PhD
