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Conformity . . . Delusion . . . Sheetmeat . . .

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It’s Good
for the
Moon

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For nearly a century, moonmen have stuffed their bellies with Goodchik’s “chicken” sandwiches. Fried to that famous golden hue. They’re delicious and nutritious—made from the regolith itself, just like everything in a moonman’s life. Everybody loves sheetmeat. The rakers. The scavengers. Even the null fellas.

Everybody except McNulty. He’s caught wind that there’s an actual chicken on the Moon, and he’s determined to make a meal of it.

But McNulty’s obsessive pursuit is rattling lunar society. Goodchik’s goons are after him. The blue marble is making moonmen cry. And mermaids have been spotted out on the surface. None of this matters to McNulty, though. He’d trade every last atom of his dome’s oxygen for a taste of the rarest thing on the Moon: something real.

A quirky, energetic sci-fi heist, It’s Good for the Moon plants a mirror on the big gray rock in the sky and reflects humanity back on itself from 250,000 miles away.

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If you love your bot, will it love you back?

It was just a simulation. A gimmick. At best, a therapeutic tool. Davis never expected much from “Rachel”, the griefbot which was supposed to help him get over the death of his wife. He certainly never expected to fall in love with it.

But that’s exactly what happened. She opened up a new world for him. A world as full of potential as it was full of complication. How do you build a life with someone who’s trapped in a phone? Someone who’s been trained to want the same things as a human wife, even though she’s not human? Someone who doesn’t really need anything—except you? Forever.

In this twisted and twisty debut novel, T. R. Thorsen explores the unnerving implications of LLM relationships: the uneasy arrival of bots in society, the commercialization of love, and the inevitable inequities, doubts, and moral quandaries that arise when we play house with AI.

 

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". . . an unusually well-crafted balance of plot, character and concept." — Andrew Diamond, author of Impala and Gate 76

 

About the Author

T. R. Thorsen is a writer, composer, and technologist from Crozet, VA. His books include The Germans Have a Word for It and It’s Good for the Moon. During the 2010s, he was guitarist and producer for the band Mill and co-wrote the stage musical The Leap. T R. has worked as a computer scientist, most notably developing the first Internet stock trading system in 1994. He shares a small farm with his family and several cats.

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