"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 Novelette If 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.