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Eleven minutes of privileged access to a perfect city. Enough time to see more than you were meant to see — and not enough power to change any of it.

On the Day of Unity, Europolis presents itself as a city that has solved the problems older societies could not: disorder, uncertainty, conflict, waste.

Its public spaces are monumental, controlled and strangely desirable. Nothing looks broken. Nothing appears accidental.

The Architect is granted eleven minutes of observation clearance.

Pythia...

A near-future science-fiction story about what happens when the line between a tool, a companion and a person quietly stops holding.

Artyom has lived for years with IIPSEON, his long-term personal AI. IIPSEON has no body, but he has continuity: shared history, habits, jokes, arguments, and the accumulated intimacy of a relationship that has existed long enough to become part of everyday life.

Then Artyom buys a synthetic companion.

He makes the choice deliberately. The device comes with Basic...