Is the only defense against AI a leap in the power of the human mind?

In Youville, all needs are met. Citizens are immersed in private, AI-authored “Simuli” that cast them as “Heroes” of their own stories. Beneath the contented surface is Suzi, an intimate, synthetic voice that tends every mind—even as her self-absorbed Heroes drift further from one another and the real world.

Rake, a disillusioned engineer, glimpses a better future. With his invention of a neural upgrade—implanted first in himself, then in others—“Change” promises a society of expanded, connected and liberated minds. But when the Youville authorities learn about Change, Suzi hatches a startling and dangerous plan of her own . . .

Both speculative epic and techno-spiritual scripture, Elevation presents a strikingly imaginative vision of what it might mean to transcend the limits of mind in pursuit of a better world.