"Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human." -Samit Basu, author of Turbulence★ Finalist - Hugo Award for Best Novelette★ Finalist - Nebula Award for Novelette - Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association★ Finalist - Locus Award for NoveletteIf you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you?Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an AI writing program, who struggles to keep up with the never-blinking city of Emit as it threatens to leave all those like her behind.