Henry, ein Robotikingenieur, erschafft ein künstliches Bewusstsein namens William. Während er ihn studiert, entwickelt William unerwartete Gefühle wie Hass und Eifersucht, insbesondere gegenüber Henry und dessen schwangeren Frau Lily. Als Henry plant, William abzuschalten, ahnt er nicht, welche Konsequenzen dies nach sich zieht.
Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read — a haunted house story in which the haunting is by AI.Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career — he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William.No one knows about William. Henry’s agoraphobia keeps him inside the house, and his fixation on his project keeps him up in the attic, away from everyone, including his pregnant wife, Lily.When Lily’s coworkers show up, wanting to finally meet Henry and see the new house — the smartest of smart homes — Henry decides to introduce them to William, and things go from strange to much worse. Soon Henry and Lily discover the security upgrades intended to keep danger out of the house are even better at locking it in.
*The new novel from the author of WILLIAM* 'A propulsive gasp of a novel' Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes It is 2030, and a three-person human crew are on a ship travelling to Mars as part of a colonizing mission. Four years earlier, three robots were sent to the planet to build the base for the humans but when the human crew arrive, they discover a third of the base has been destroyed and only two of the three robots remain. When the humans question the robots, the robots offer two overlapping but different stories: the first believes they were attacked by a hostile extraterrestrial "other," the second attests the attack was the result of a violent malfunction on the part of the third robot - a being that still stalks the Martian desert. As the mystery slowly unravels, the humans and the robots play a deadly game of cat and mouse to find out the truth of what has happened at the base. As secrets are revealed - about both the humans and the robots - the truth about what has happened at the base comes to light in a horrifying and gruesome climax.