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  • Exciting and visionary: a thriller about the future of our cities
  • Aiki Mira is a multiple winner of the German Science Fiction Award and the Kurd Laßwitz Prize
  • English rights of Aiki Mira's Proxi sold to Rosarium Publishing


Topics: Tech Thriller, AI, Cyberpunk

Fully automated, super smart... and deadly

In the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany's first crypto-billionaire has privatized the military, police, transportation and city administration. An artificial neural network supports all institutions and is also part of the brain-city interface: implanted chips that allow intuitive interaction with the city (its buildings, machines, streets, transportation system). The ANN develops its own code of ethics, which it never deviates from, and ensures the smooth functioning of the infrastructure. When a homeless teenager dies, a group of coders and a bot set out to find the cause of the accident. They uncover something monstrous, but before they can tell anyone about it, the military intervenes.

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  • Publisher: FISCHER Tor
  • Release: 29.10.2025
  • ISBN: 978-3-596-71182-6
  • 256 Pages
  • Author: Aiki Mira
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Miguel Ferraz
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Aiki Mira

Aiki Mira writes novels, short stories, and essays, which have been published in Zeit Online and SWR Kultur, among others. Aiki's short stories have won the German Science Fiction Award several times and have been translated into English, French, and Chinese. Aiki won the Kurd Laßwitz Prize three times in a row for their novels Neon Grey , Neurobeast , and Proxi .  Neon Grey was also adapted as an ARD radio play series. The European Science Fiction Society awarded Aiki the Chrysalis Award.