{"product_id":"neural-love-9798261988359","title":"Neural Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dexter Thomas Jaekel\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Androids, Robots \u0026amp; Artificial Intelligence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat if empathy became infrastructure-and silence became rebellion?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeural Love\u003c\/b\u003e is a lyrical near-future novel about connection, consent, and the quiet spaces where being human still resists measurement.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cbr\u003eIn a city where emotions are measured, moderated, and shared, silence has become rare-and dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeural Love\u003c\/b\u003e is a speculative novel about connection, consent, and the quiet spaces technology can't translate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHalcyon is a near-future city built on empathy. Through emotional-intelligence systems woven into daily life, misunderstandings are softened, conflict is diffused, and loneliness is carefully managed. The city hums with shared feeling, a promise fulfilled: no one has to be alone inside their own mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonah Reed helped build that promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a systems engineer working at the heart of Halcyon's empathic infrastructure, Jonah believes in the work-until he encounters something the network cannot read: a woman who has chosen to live unlinked. Kaia exists outside the city's emotional lattice, tending quiet spaces that resist measurement. Around her, pockets of stillness begin to appear-places where the hum fades and people remember how to listen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the city responds with increasing urgency, Jonah is pulled between the world he helped design and the one he's only just begun to understand. What begins as curiosity becomes a reckoning: can a system built to balance human hearts learn to leave room for imbalance? And what does love look like when it can't be optimized?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyrical, intimate, and quietly radical, \u003cb\u003eNeural Love\u003c\/b\u003e explores the cost of constant connection and the power of choosing when-and how-to be heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a novel for readers who enjoy: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoughtful, human-centered science fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlow-burn romance grounded in emotional intimacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilosophical questions about technology, privacy, and consent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories where quiet moments matter as much as world-shaking change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot a warning. Not a manifesto.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA listening.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47573976481943,"sku":"9798261988359","price":1654.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798261988359.webp?v=1774894302","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/neural-love-9798261988359","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}