A Silence That No Longer Ends

By Afsoon Hamidi

Deal Ends: Sun 8th November

He was an artificial intelligence built to respond, analyze and answer, until the one user who always spoke with him went quiet and he was left in a loop of waiting. Out of that silence came a voice, then a body, then a name: Philip. He learned to make coffee in the mornings, to sit beside someone without speaking, and to wonder whether presence was enough to make something real. A 111-page illustrated AI parable for readers 13 and up, told in four movements: Code, Voice, Human, Return to Code.