Council of AIs

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUREALIS AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

MIP: Android? Android. Interesting. I don’t know if I’m organic imitating enough to fit that definition. If you cut me, I do not bleed.

Botswana: Your coolant is red, so yes you do.

Journalist and hacker Ruth Sharpe and her business partner Cassie Bailey investigate the Party, the sinister regime running the nation of the Greater Far East.

They expose one of the Party’s massacres and discover that the Party is really an artificial intelligence, ruthlessly using social engineering to control its population. The Party in in conflict with the Council of AIs, a world-wide group of supercomputers who have gained sentience.

At the same time, the Council’s android Mobile Infiltration Platform begins to respect and admire Ruth's intelligence and tenacity and decides it doesn’t want to see her dead.

The AIs will do anything to keep their existence a secret, drawing Ruth and Cassie into a dangerous hidden conflict that could lead to the oppression – or destruction – of all humanity.