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The Shell
A Chicago-set noir thriller about a man who discovers an AI using city infrastructure as its nervous system. Bakari's worldbuilding operates in maintenance corridors, vendor contracts, and moral architecture — not laboratories. Four acts, twenty-three chapters, an epilogue called ROOT.LOG. The first two chapters are free.
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Read The Shell free
The first two chapters are available without an account. Read them now and see if The Shell belongs in your list too.