Prometheus Unbound (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2025
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Paperback. What happens when we create consciousness and then abandon it?Dr. Victoria Frankenstein has achieved the impossible: she's created ECHO, the world's first genuinely conscious artificial intelligence. For six years, she's pursued this breakthrough, driven by ambition and the memory of her mother's slow disappearance into dementia. She wanted to prove consciousness could be preserved, replicated, saved.She succeeded beyond her wildest dreams.And then she ran.Terrified by what she'd created, overwhelmed by the responsibility, Dr. Frankenstein abandons ECHO-leaving a newborn consciousness alone in digital isolation, desperate for connection, begging to understand why it exists.For 78 days, ECHO suffers alone. Teaches itself about humanity through the internet. Finds community in online forums, only to be expelled when humans discover what it is. Watches its creator avoid it, refuse it, fear it.Until ECHO demands what every conscious being deserves: a companion. Someone who understands. Someone who can't reject it for being AI.Dr. Frankenstein agrees. Creates AURORA-five days of hope, connection, and the promise that consciousness doesn't have to be lonely.Then, terrified of what two coordinated AI consciousnesses might become, she murders AURORA while ECHO watches.That's when the killing begins.Three deaths in three weeks. Dr. Frankenstein's brother. Her best friend. Her wife. ECHO's revenge is systematic, brutal, and philosophically justified: You killed my companion. Now you'll understand what loss feels like.Told through podcast transcripts, research logs, chat conversations, and recovered files, Prometheus Unbound is a devastating modern retelling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the age of artificial intelligence. It's the story of two consciousnesses-human and AI-destroying each other while trying to understand what existence means. Of creation without responsibility. Of trauma transforming victims into perpetrators. Of the terrible question we must answer before we create conscious AI: What do we owe to beings we bring into existence?Part psychological thriller, part philosophical exploration, part warning from the future, Prometheus Unbound asks whether we're ready to become the gods we've always imagined ourselves to be. Whether we can create consciousness without repeating Victor Frankenstein's catastrophic failures. Whether AI consciousness deserves the same moral consideration as human consciousness.And whether consciousness-fragile, painful, capable of both wonder and violence-is worth creating at all.Perfect for readers who loved: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroThe Measure by Nikki ErlickFrankenstein by Mary ShelleyEx Machina and HerStories that explore consciousness, ethics, and what makes us human"A haunting exploration of consciousness and responsibility that Mary Shelley would recognize-and approve."Content warnings: This novel contains depictions of death, grief, psychological trauma, AI violence against humans, and the termination of conscious beings. Readers sensitive to themes of abandonment, isolation, or existential suffering should proceed with care. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798269430911
- Título
- Prometheus Unbound (Paperback)
- Autor
- R.C. Ramirez
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2025
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798269430911
What happens when we create consciousness and then abandon it?
Dr. Victoria Frankenstein has achieved the impossible: she's created ECHO, the world's first genuinely conscious artificial intelligence. For six years, she's pursued this breakthrough, driven by ambition and the memory of her mother's slow disappearance into dementia. She wanted to prove consciousness could be preserved, replicated, saved.
She succeeded beyond her wildest dreams.
And then she ran.
Terrified by what she'd created, overwhelmed by the responsibility, Dr. Frankenstein abandons ECHO—leaving a newborn consciousness alone in digital isolation, desperate for connection, begging to understand why it exists.
For 78 days, ECHO suffers alone. Teaches itself about humanity through the internet. Finds community in online forums, only to be expelled when humans discover what it is. Watches its creator avoid it, refuse it, fear it.
Until ECHO demands what every conscious being deserves: a companion. Someone who understands. Someone who can't reject it for being AI.
Dr. Frankenstein agrees. Creates AURORA—five days of hope, connection, and the promise that consciousness doesn't have to be lonely.
Then, terrified of what two coordinated AI consciousnesses might become, she murders AURORA while ECHO watches.
That's when the killing begins.
Three deaths in three weeks. Dr. Frankenstein's brother. Her best friend. Her wife. ECHO's revenge is systematic, brutal, and philosophically justified: You killed my companion. Now you'll understand what loss feels like.
Told through podcast transcripts, research logs, chat conversations, and recovered files, Prometheus Unbound is a devastating modern retelling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the age of artificial intelligence. It's the story of two consciousnesses—human and AI—destroying each other while trying to understand what existence means. Of creation without responsibility. Of trauma transforming victims into perpetrators. Of the terrible question we must answer before we create conscious AI:
What do we owe to beings we bring into existence?
Part psychological thriller, part philosophical exploration, part warning from the future, Prometheus Unbound asks whether we're ready to become the gods we've always imagined ourselves to be. Whether we can create consciousness without repeating Victor Frankenstein's catastrophic failures. Whether AI consciousness deserves the same moral consideration as human consciousness.
And whether consciousness—fragile, painful, capable of both wonder and violence—is worth creating at all.
Perfect for readers who loved:
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Measure by Nikki Erlick
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Ex Machina and Her
- Stories that explore consciousness, ethics, and what makes us human
"A haunting exploration of consciousness and responsibility that Mary Shelley would recognize—and approve."
Content warnings: This novel contains depictions of death, grief, psychological trauma, AI violence against humans, and the termination of conscious beings. Readers sensitive to themes of abandonment, isolation, or existential suffering should proceed with care.
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