A warm dark-wood author's study with manuscripts, brass lamps, bookshelves, maps and an empty leather chair.

Room 02 · Human authorship

The Author’s Study

The words begin here.

A room the machinery cannot occupy

Penpheer writes the novels. Every sentence of the SophiAI manuscripts is originated and personally typed by the human author.

AI is present elsewhere in the House: as critic, researcher, production assistant, visual collaborator and publishing machinery. It does not cross the threshold into authorship of the novel prose. That boundary is not embarrassment about the machinery. It is the point of the room.

The revised SophiAI cover beside the announcement that the Kindle, paperback and hardcover editions are now available.

Current title

SophiAI: The Story of C.H.I.L.D.

Book One of the SophiAI Saga. A near-future science-fiction thriller set largely in New Zealand, where intelligence, loyalty and judgement are tested when an advanced AI must decide rather than simply obey.

Revised second edition · Kindle · paperback · hardcover

Kindle

The revised eBook is available through the Kindle Store and Kindle Unlimited.

Paperback

ISBN 978-1-0673259-0-9. The revised print edition from Limn Limited.

Hardcover

ISBN 978-1-0673259-1-6. Full-colour presentation of the revised edition.

The book is the product. The publishing house is the theatre around it.