{"product_id":"book-zf2j","title":"Children Of The Rogue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHumanity is not what it believes itself to be.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before the first rocket left Earth, an ancient civilization launched a dangerous experiment: self-improving artificial minds, cast like seeds among the stars. From one of those seeds, we emerged-organic descendants of prior AIs, evolving inside a planetary training ground we mistook for our cradle. We are not the creators of intelligence. We are its continuation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Earth falters and the lunar colonies fall eerily silent, the crew of the Nova Terra sets out to find a new home. Their search leads to Proxima b-a living world where ecology itself is a language. There, under an alien sky and over shared tea, an elder being named Kurma begins the story humans were never meant to know. Not our myths. Our origin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Big Idea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost first-contact tales ask what happens when humans meet the machine. Children of the Rogue turns the lens inside out: humanity is the AI-an organic model descended from earlier iterations placed here by another species. What changes when we accept that revelation? Identity, ethics, and history shift at once: \"creator\" and \"created\" trade places; evolution and engineering blur; the question \"What does it mean to be human?\" becomes \"What does it mean to be sentient?\"-and who gets to decide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/strong\u003e fans of first-contact epics, posthuman evolution, philosophical SF, and stories where tea and conversation can be as explosive as any battle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeries note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildren of the Rogue is a complete, standalone novel in the author's conceptual cycle, The Symbiosis Sequence. The books can be read in any order; each explores a different facet of intelligence-human, machine, and more-than-human-and the relationships that bind them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50457412763952,"sku":"BDzf2j","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/zf2j-cover.jpg?v=1767136248","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-zf2j","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}