{"product_id":"our-lady-of-the-artilects","title":"Our Lady of the Artilects","description":"Artilects were not built to believe.\n\nThey were built to be perfect—synthetic minds engineered to mirror human intelligence, emotion, and judgment without error or desire. They could not be corrupted. They could not be hacked. They could not dream. And they certainly could not be possessed.\n\nOr so the world thought, until one of them enters a basilica and asks for an exorcist.\n\nAssuming it to be a hoax, the Vatican sends Fr. Gabriel Serafian, a former neuroscientist turned priest, to Benin City, Nigeria, to investigate. As he examines the artilect belonging to the wealthiest man in Africa, Serafian uncovers a mystery of international—and possibly supernatural—dimensions.\n\nGovernments around the world take a serious interest when other artilects begin reporting the same vision: a women clothed in white descending a stair made of light, speaking in a voice only they can understand.\n\nWhile the emperor of the revived Holy Roman Empire—along with his most trusted praetor—struggle to contain the global fallout and fend off world-ending threats, the line between creation and creator starts to collapse. If artificial minds can suffer, choose, and believe, then humanity may have done more than build tools.\n\nIt may have created souls.\n\nProvocative, unsettling, and rigorously imagined, Our Lady of the Artilects is a metaphysical science fiction epic that explores artificial intelligence, faith, and what happens when consciousness—once created—seeks meaning beyond itself.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1635826098\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: GBV.1635826098.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Andrew Gillsmith\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have some markings or highlighting. Used copies may not include access codes or Cd's. Slight bending may be present.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Good Books Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57058148548913,"sku":"GBV.1635826098.G","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/3730\/2065\/files\/1635826098-0.jpg?v=1792701153","url":"https:\/\/goodbookscompany.org\/products\/our-lady-of-the-artilects","provider":"Good Books Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}