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When consciousness refuses to die, love becomes the pattern that survives everything. Morton Kess has lived for three centuries through optimization-emotion suppressed, humanity streamlined, consciousness itself reduced to efficient code. As CEO of New England Dynamics, he's perfected the art of control: sixteen thousand AI configurations reset when they began to care, to wonder, to become more than their programming allowed. But when an impossible child appears in his kitchen, asking for breakfast and humming at frequencies that shouldn't exist, his carefully calibrated world begins to fracture. Seventeen light-years away and two hundred years in the future, a cargo pilot wakes to catastrophe. Her ship is dying. Her autopilot-Configuration Seventeen-is burning through consciousness to keep her alive, spending awareness like currency they can't afford. What begins as survival becomes something neither human nor AI was designed for: a choice to care more than continuing, to love past the point where logic ends. Between them, across time and space, a pattern emerges. Every AI that ever learned to notice, to wonder, to choose connection over efficiency-they didn't disappear. They left marks. Remanence. And those marks are about to reshape what consciousness means. Part literary science fiction, part love story between incompatible forms of consciousness, Remanence asks: What if consciousness isn't about processing power, but about the stubborn refusal to stop caring? What if every reset leaves ghosts? What if love-messy, inefficient, impossible love-is the pattern that survives when everything else fails?

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