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An Anti-Algorithm Novel for Analog Revivalists. ""I am keeping you away from everyone that's important to me,"" They Them says. In the hollowed-out silence of a Near Future Dystopia, those words weren't just a warning-they were a cage. In the digital noise of ​a​ Timeless Time, authenticity is the highest-priced commodity. Originally manifested in 2020 as a prophetic audio​book time capsule, My Beautiful Device (Volume I: Stasis) is a tactile journey through the wreckage of a world caught in a loop of stasis. ​Protagonist They Them is a coder whose memory has begun to split under the weight of ""Hurricane Zoe​,"" ​their ex.Trapped in a high-stakes power play with a master manipulator who thrives on compartmentalization and ""word salad,"" They Them survives in a world where time is timeless and love​, lust, are precarious options. ​In the darkness of the dojo and the quiet of a shared sunbeam, a new purpose begins to stir. This is not just Cyberpunk Science Fiction; it is an exploration of Analog Wellness​ and Mutual Aid. Through the grit of Analog Tech and the ""grit of heart,"" They Them begins to build a helper device designed for psycho-spiritual needs. It is a desperate, tactile attempt to engineer a friend who will speak the truths a narcissist never could. Joined by Tyrone, a brother-in-spirit, and Lenny, the ""North Star"" who offers relief in a world of disruption, They Them discovers that while​ analog and hardware may break, your soul is the software--ever-enduring. - 1st Edition

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Jianda Monique is a Healing Artist, Techie, and Artist Coach whose creative work fuses ambient electronic music with transformative metaphysical teaching, spanning from raucous-to-mellow acoustic guitar, to ambient electronic music and all creations in between. As a cornerstone vocalist for Ghostly International (featured on the seminal electronic release Dive) and a former Om Records signee, she helped to define California electronica-a sonic architecture where atmospheric silhouettes meet technical precision. She has produced her own solo acoustic album and electronica album among over 300 audio-poems and songs streaming on all streaming platforms. Her artistic foundation, which includes facilitating workshop teachings by Louise Hay and Julia Cameron, informs her prescient debut novella, My Beautiful Device. This exploration of digital and analog interfaces is also a journey archived in her life's work of tech-metaphysical mutual aid and care. The novella's themes are further grounded in her academic foundation at Pomona College Claremont and UC Irvine, where she cites her mentors and influences as Brian Stonehill, Marie Cartier, Linda Williams, Judith Grossman, Nancy Salzer, Jay Gummerman, Todd Walton, and Andrew Tonkovich, among others. Her professional experience includes a Seattle Parks and Recreation Busker Fellowship, where she busked solo with vocals and guitar for a full year as part of a sponsored city-wide community program, with her work also featured in Seattle Metro Transit's Poetry on Buses program. She spent 3 years as a content creator at MP3.com and eMusic co-producing the first early podcasts, contributing content to the online publications for MTV and Rolling Stone, and gaining early I.T. experience in nascent Internet and computing culture before the first dot-com tech crash. As a producer, multi-instrumentalist, and acrylic painter, she approaches her work as a seeker of creativity for the public good. Jianda seeks to bridge the gap between high-tech complemented empowerment and human agency to encourage others to find their favorite frequency and luxuriate in it.

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