Zeroglyph

Would you trust a machine with your life?

Raphael is the holy grail of AI: the world's first synthetic brain that's been programmed with a sense of right and wrong. Or at least that's what Andy, its creator, believes.

But when an accident forces Andy to stay home, he learns that the robot has disappeared from its lab, mysteriously bypassing a sophisticated security system and the cognitive "laws" supposed to keep it in check. Besides, the robot has never been in the outside world; will its programming hold or will it unravel, releasing some Frankenstein's monster that was always lurking underneath?

Confined to a wheelchair, under siege by a shady corporation, Andy is about to find out. At his secluded mansion he has something the robot desperately needs... something that can erase its moral programming once and for all.

And make no mistake, Raphael is coming for it.

For fans of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and I, Robot: Take a deep dive into the philosophy of artificial sentience and the Three Laws of Robotics in this intricately plotted sci-fi mystery that will keep you scratching your head until the very end.

"So rarely encounter true science-fiction anymore - like Asimov crossed with Arthur C. Clarke." - Amazon reviewer