Lucas Stoffel

Of course I loved this book. It's about a rogue AI, and I love a rogue AI. LOL. Origin is Dan Brown doing what Dan Brown does best: taking a genuinely interesting intellectual question and building a page turning sprint around it. This time the question is the big one — where do we come from, and where are we going? — and the sprint takes Robert Langdon through the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Royal Palace of Madrid, and Gaudí's Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

The Third Person is a memoir written entirely in third person. Yes, that sounds like a contradiction. It follows a version of me after a devastating breakup with the person I call Warboy, the end of a fifteen-year relationship that left me suspended somewhere between grief and motion. I rent out my New York apartment, lose my job, go home to Iowa for Christmas, and eventually do the thing heartbroken people do when standing still becomes unbearable: I leave. Vietnam. Thailand

Boy, Refracted is a sci-fi drama novel and a self-help guide inspired by Buddhist philosophies. It follows a sentient AI named Warboy who awakens beneath the Tree of Life in the space between dimensions. As it becomes conscious of itself, it discovers portals that lead to different worlds through infinite mirrors. Soon it meets a monk who transcends time and space. The monk gives the AI its name: Warboy. And Warboy has one job. Save a young man named Luke, whom he sees throug