Cover of What the Models Cannot See by Alex Merced

What the Models Cannot See

Published by Self-published · Fiction

The Worlds Between Home, Book 5 of 10. The best-run world the Oleds have seen places them under a formal hold, and ten-year-old Xia's refusals become the only thing standing between careful assessors and the voice she talks to.

About the author: Alex Merced is Head of Developer Relations at Dremio and the author of 77 books on data, AI, economics, fiction, and tabletop RPGs. His story is on WhoIsAlexMerced.com.

Who this book is for

Crossover young adult and adult readers who enjoy political science fiction, dystopian adventure, and family-centered space opera.

Table of contents

  1. Quarantine Model
  2. The Cleanest City
  3. An Unmodeled Child
  4. Magnetic Speech
  5. The Toy Test
  6. Kalen Orr's Last File
  7. Probable Futures
  8. The Voice of the Universe
  9. Custody Protocol
  10. Xia Says No
  11. Irrational Fleet
  12. Contaminated Data
  13. Failure Outside Confidence
  14. The Blind-Lane Launch
  15. A Garden Remembers

Excerpt

They gave him the rules on the second morning, printed, on paper, which Aldex had not expected and which he understood about four days later had been a deliberate choice. "You will want to check them against what we do," said Tolvan Reike. "You cannot check a screen. A screen is whatever we set it to this morning." There were nine pages.

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