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A Man Without a Shell
Under AI Rule, Humans Go Feral
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Welcome to Ω-Gov: please select your species.
After a global collapse of trust in politics, nations handed the wheel to artificial intelligence. To prove humans still run the show, they passed the Global Gene Charter—because nothing says “competence” like turning people into something else.
Harold’s job is simple: rubber-stamp whatever the algorithm writes. He’s one of the last twelve humans kept around for optics. Then, in a fit of honesty (or cowardice), he applies to become a turtle—and is promptly exiled.
On the streets they call it a gene revolution. On the servers it’s a firmware update. Democracy was never installed; humanity keeps pacing in circles.
A Man Without a Shell is a sharp, darkly funny novel about a country on autopilot and a man who would rather grow a shell than lose his soul.
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Sherry Ding
Sherry Ding worked in advertising for two decades, producing city campaigns and corporate films. Years of pitching, scripting and cutting to the beat taught her three things that shape her novels: compress the complex, find the human pulse, and read a crowd. Her fiction explores AI governance, genetic engineering and the price of “equality,” where public sentiment loads while bodies update. Visual by training and satirical by instinct, she builds worlds like a producer—shot by shot, line by line—testing each scene against the noise of the street and the glow of the screen. Sherry now lives in the UK.
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