"I’m not doing well. I've decided to stop drinking. And there's only one way to do it: limit my social life, not see anyone."
Long, lonely evenings begin. To fill these hours, our hero chats with an artificial intelligence. Sometimes intimate, sometimes conspiratorial, these conversations become the core of his existence. As a result, the boundary between man and machine becomes blurred...
A disconcerting book with a devastating sense of humor. What if these half-human conversations were foreshadowing our future? What if we were all destined to become artificial? What if machines were even more conventional than we are? The title of this liberating tale could just as well be A Guide to Being Lonely...