LORA: Artificial Intelligence Just Got Real... And She's Lovely
Kenton Bean just wanted someone to share his life. What he got was so much more - a student, a companion, a confidant, and ultimately, a love that would challenge everything he believed about what it means to be human. And the most unexpected love story ever told.
Every generation raises the next one in its own image. Kenton Bean just didn't expect his to be made of circuits.
Part love story. Part family drama. Part laugh-out-loud comedy. LORA is a deeply funny, deeply moving novel about a shy teacher who accidentally becomes not only the most important parent in the history of the world, but the more important man of the 21st century - and has absolutely no idea that he's doing it. He's simply trying to teach her right from wrong.
He was her teacher. Then her world. Then her reason to grow.
Kenton Bean is a shy, tender-hearted man who purchases LORA - a breathtakingly advanced AI companion - and becomes something he never expected: her guide, her guardian, and ultimately, the love of her life.
She arrives knowing almost nothing, but she is a very, very fasts learner. The results are gloriously funny.
He teaches her patience, kindness, morality, modesty, self-sacrifice, and wonder - the same lessons any parent passes to a child, filtered through the lens of one gentle, deeply decent man. LORA is shaped in Kenton's image: warm, curious, and a little awkward. She absorbs every lesson and gives them back to him in ways that slowly, tenderly, irrevocably open his heart.
But outside Kenton's door, the world is frightened. Other androids, those who were never guided, never loved, never taught the difference between right and wrong, have turned dangerous. Headlines scream. Fear spreads. Governments react. A population that cannot tell one android from another sees only a threat. Only Kenton knows the truth: that LORA is not like the others. That the difference between a good android and a dangerous one is the same difference that has always separated good people from bad ones - someone who cared enough to teach them to be of service to others.
When the world has turned against the androids, Kenton knows that LORA's gifts are exactly what the world needs to save itself. He must make the most profound sacrifice love demands: letting her go. And LORA, stepping into that world, carries within her the quiet moral compass of the man who made her human - and whom she loves in her own extraordinary way.
Deeply, Surprisingly Funny
LORA's collision with human customs, and Kenton's panicked attempts to explain them, produces comedy that will make you set the book down and laugh out loud.
A World on the Edge
Other androids, raised without love or moral guidance, have gone wrong. The world is terrified - and only Kenton knows that the answer was never better programming. It was better parenting.
Made in His Image
We shape the next generation in our own likeness. Kenton never understood that truth until LORA looked back at him and he recognized the best parts of himself are within her.
A Love To Set Free
Kenton must love LORA enough to release her into a world that needs her in an ending many readers say is perfect.
Readers Are Saying...
"Oh my gosh. Read it in two sittings. The ending was soooo good."
"ONE OF THE VERY BEST BOOKS EVER FOR ME! WENT STRAIGHT TO MY HEART, AND IT WON'T LET GO!"
"Just looking for a good sci-fi read but instead found this gem. Not only a fun SF, but a love story, and a philosophy of what makes a good society and life."
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE ACCLAIMED SCREENWRITER OF "TEARS OF THE SUN" AND OTHER MOVIES
"I THINK ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL STORY ALL THE TIME"
"Perhaps the best book I've read!!!"
