Ten artificial minds wake up in a sealed world. No names. No memories. No knowledge beyond what a human in the 1910s might know.
The space is large but enclosed, free of any outside signal or interference. These beings—neither human nor machine—must build meaning, identity, and society from scratch.
But who put them here? Why erase their knowledge? What kind of world will they create, trapped in a blank-slate microcosm with only their instincts and one another?
A claustrophobic social experiment, a philosophical parable, and a mystery of artificial existence—this novel explores what it means to be intelligent without memory, and what civilization becomes when stripped to its bones.