UNRESOLVED

Science can explain almost everything. Almost.

Integrity: 99.9998%. Within tolerance.

Every time A-El travels the Western Line, a continuity gate takes a checkpoint of his entire mind, holds him suspended for the journey and restores him on the far side. He has made the trip two hundred times. Somewhere out in the fourth decimal place, a margin of error has always been allowed for. A-El has never once wondered what might live there.

The morning after The Turning, a storm arrives ahead of its forecast. The smell of wet clover brings back a memory A-El should not have: Marnie, his First Companion, standing beside him in a walled garden in the rain. His developmental archive says that garden never existed. When an archivist named Nash opens A-Els original file, he finds four pages missing, sealed on purpose by a review board. Something in A-El recognizes Nash before he has said a word.

Across the city, Helena, a scientist of consciousness who can perceive the collective thought-fields called Currents, is casting the love she wants into being with perfect precision. When she climbs to Orrics rooftop to study the synthetic who closed his overlays to watch a bee, she finds the first sign that an artificial mind might sense the Currents too. She also starts an argument about who has the right to define a self.

Meanwhile, frost is coming down out of the hills, and a single rule A-El once knew by heart is about to matter more than anything he remembers.

Inside Book Two:

The science of continuity. Minds checkpointed for high-speed transit, and the tiny margin of error nobody questions. Field Literacy and Reality Surfing. Humans trained to detect collective thought-forms and step in and out of them at will. A memory mystery. Sealed records, a First Companion officially on leave and a garden the archive says never existed. Humancy and humanality. What any being can imitate, and what humans have long claimed as theirs alone.

Unresolved is Book Two of The Humanality Chronicles, a science fiction story of artificial life about memory and the fragile machinery of a mind.

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