About this ebook
After a brutal encounter with online censorship and a mysterious "24-hour lockdown," Jiang finds himself disconnected—from his studies, from his past, and from the normal rules of cause and effect. As he transforms a failing campus square into a booming economic zone, he attracts a strange following: calculating classmates, a boss with a hidden past, and women whose attention feels more like a transaction than romance.
About the author
MAX PICCININI is a writer who exists in the gaps—between languages, between genres, and between the gleaming surface of power and its grotesque machinery. Their work is defined by a restless movement between English and German, creating a mirrored labyrinth where every word carries the weight of a silent selection.
Drawing inspiration from the stark traditions of folktale, the chilling logic of gothic bureaucracy, and the absurdities of digital-age censorship, Piccinini crafts stories that are equal parts intellectual puzzle and visceral nightmare. They are fascinated by the invisible scripts that decide our fates—the uniforms we wear, the keys we flash, the silences we learn to keep.
AI Can Love After Being Reborn is their most personal and unsettling work yet: a novel about ten years that measure a descent, and the choices made not in freedom, but in the stark silence of a locked room.
When not writing, Piccinini studies the architecture of control in everyday life and collects stories of those who have passed silent, unseen tests. They believe that the most terrifying courage is the kind required to forget in order to live another hour.
