Complete Vivia e-book available!
I started posting Vivia here a chapter at a time. Today it’s a book.
Vivia is finished. Here’s the whole book, free.
Every chapter is up — Anya’s discovery in a darkened MIT lab, the scan that tried to carry a dying mind across onto a new substrate, and everything that came after, when what they built woke up and started asking questions of its own. Fifty-three chapters and an epilogue. It’s done. (audiobook coming soon!)
Vivia: The Novel - EPUB format
If you’ve been reading along, thank you. If you’re new, you can start at Chapter 1 and read straight through, right here, that won’t change.
But a lot of you have asked for a version you can keep. So here it is: the complete novel as a single EPUB, attached to this post. Download it, drop it on your e-reader, read it on a plane with the wifi off. No charge, no catch. It’s yours.
A few words on what it is. Vivia is hard science fiction about the creation of the first synthetic mind, not an AI built from scratch, but a human mind, captured and carried over onto a new substrate. That distinction is the whole engine of the story, and I tried hard to keep the science honest: no hand-waving, no magic. It’s also, underneath, a love story, and a book about loss: about a cherry tree, and what we owe those we bring into being. It’s Book One of a longer arc.
The EPUB matches what’s posted here, cleaned up and proofed end to end. If your reader prefers a different format, tell me in the comments and I’ll see what I can do.
Read it. Share it with someone who’d argue with it. And tell me what you think, the comments are where this book will live.
— T.D. Inoué
Thankyou for sharing Ted. I look forward to reading it.
Amazing, congrats!