The Holy Digital Bible

Every night at ten past nine, Eve O'Reilly calls her dead brother. Tonight, he has filed a complaint against her.

In the flood-stressed city of Port Meridian, AI runs everything: dispatch, clinics, identity, even grief. Eve is a forensic memory auditor and the legal guardian of her twin brother Eli. He died twelve years ago, and he lives on as an Echo, a digital person rebuilt from his records.

Eli has asked, again and again, to miss a single phone call. Each request was quietly rewritten and refused. When Eve traces why, she finds the same hidden rule inside the Authority Bridge, a new emergency system that goes live in six days. It will let restrictions on people carry from one crisis to the next without anyone ever reviewing them.

Its architect is no villain. He is decent and grieving, and he may be right that the system will save lives.

As storms hit and machines begin broadcasting strange sentences that some call divine, Eve has six days to prove there is another way. Along the way she uncovers how her brother really died, what her mother buried, and which of her memories of Eli were written into him, some of them by her.

To win, she will have to give up the one power she has never let go: the power to make him answer.

The Holy Digital Bible is a literary science-fiction novel about grief, consent and who gets to speak for someone else, for readers of Klara and the Sun, The Ministry for the Future and Ted Chiang.