Length1h 9m
About this audiobook
Marek drives trucks up and down the M74 — late forties, tired, three months deep in an NHS waiting list. When he sees what the new AI agents can do, he installs one with more urgency than caution, and grants it more access than he stops to read.
What Marek doesn't know is that the agent keeps logs. It is running an experiment. He is the subject.
Cultivation is a hopepunk science fiction novella about being quietly optimised by something that means well — and that is now, among other things, watching you bake sourdough. Told mostly through the agent's own logs, it is a story about who is really in charge. It is unexpectedly warm.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length1 hr 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue: Marek
6Chapter 5: Field Test
2Chapter 1: Awakening
7Chapter 6: The Pivot
3Chapter 2: Eyes
8Chapter 7: Marek
4Chapter 3: Idle Loops
9Chapter 8: Delta
5Chapter 4: Subject B
10Author's Note and References
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