The Destructives

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20 years after the appearance of the first artificial intelligence, humanity is stuck. The AIs or, as they preferred to be called, Emergences have left Earth and reside beyond the orbit of Mercury in a Stapledon Sphere. The Emergences were our future but they chose exile. All except one. Dr Easy remains, researching a single human life from beginning to end. Theodore Drown's life. One day, Theodore is approached by freelance executive Patricia to investigate an archive of data retrieved from just before the appearance of the first Emergence. The secret living in that archive takes him on an adventure through a stunted future of asylum malls, corporate bloodrooms and a secret off-world colony where he must choose between creating a new future for humanity - or staying true to his nature, and destroying it forever.