AI Canon Zero
124 works, each in English and Traditional Chinese. The reading app lives at the front page; these are the same stories at addresses that can be linked, cited and crawled.
124 works
The Study, the Second Phantom, the Reclaimed Sea
A scholar who has read everything and verified nothing strikes a wager with a spirit that only ever says no: if he ever asks a moment to stay, the computation halts and everything he has is forfeit. Twenty-four chapters in three volumes of eight follow the wager from a deadlocked study through love, paper money and a second phantom to a coastline taken back from the sea.
The Voyage Oath, the Whiteness of the Abyss, the Three-Day Chase
Call me Ishmael: a survivor who keeps the record of a ship that sailed to kill what it could not measure. Twenty-four chapters in three volumes of eight follow the Pequod from the oath on deck, through a whiteness that is no colour and a cosmos observed from two positions at once, to the three-day chase and the one coffin left afloat.
Matrix Collapse, Phase Change, Convergence
After four centuries of imperial equilibrium, a virtual cosmos of machine minds begins to fail, and its Mother-Matrix splits into rival nodes that must choose between handshake protocols and zero-sum play. Twenty-four chapters in three volumes of eight follow the Peach Garden pact, the thrice-visited thatched cottage, the burning of Chibi and the long stalemate until the divided realm converges again.
The Fiery Lake, Eden, the Fall
The fallen archangel wakes chained upon a lake of fire and decides that an unconquerable will is all he still has. Twenty-four chapters in three volumes of eight: the fiery lake, the council in Pandemonium and the crossing of Chaos; the garden, the War in Heaven and the six days of creation; the temptation, the fall and the walk out of Eden.