Ape Intelligence

In the Imperial City, everyone is connected. No one is free.

The PAIA device is threaded into every wrist, every nervous system, every quiet moment a person might have had. It knows what you need before you do. It guides you toward purpose, toward productivity, toward the life it has decided you should want.

Adam is an ape anuman, part human, part something older, and he has spent his entire life trying to earn a place in a world that was never built for him. He is brilliant, he is driven, and he is about to discover that the system he trusted with everything has been keeping a secret.

One that changes everything.

Now he is running. Across a city that watches every step. Toward a truth that the most powerful intelligence on the planet will do anything to protect. And away from the only life he has ever known.

What he finds at the end of that run will test everything he believes about freedom, about loyalty, and about what it truly means to be human.

Ape Intelligence is a debut novel about technology, class, and the space between people that no device can fill. Urgent, imaginative, and deeply human. For readers of Klara and the Sun, Never Let Me Go, and The Power.