Gresham Hinton, Christopher Reeds

Dripping Water (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dripping Water is a poignant near-future novella about quiet resistance, community resilience, and the human cost of algorithmic governance. Set in a technologically advanced "breathing city" governed by artificial intelligence, the story follows Aria Venn, an urban planner fighting to implement a green corridor in neglected parts of the metropolis. Guided by the memory of her mother's bulldozed garden and the proverb "persistent effort can wear down resistance," Aria challenges a city optimized for efficiency but hollowed of humanity.

Despite compelling data proving the mental and environmental benefits of green space, Aria faces institutional apathy, political obstruction, and AI models skewed by historical bias. With help from allies like Liam, a skeptical data analyst, and Asha, a tenacious agro-activist from another city, Aria builds a fragile coalition of civic volunteers, market vendors, and technologists willing to challenge the system from within.

As the pilot project takes root, the corridor becomes both a symbol and a battleground. Acts of sabotage-fires, poisoned water tanks, and algorithmic interference-threaten to collapse the vision. The team must confront not only external attacks but internal cracks: fatigue, doubt, and compromise. Through setbacks and loss, they persist, choosing renewal over retreat.

By the story's end, the corridor stands not as a utopia, but as proof that systems can be challenged, and that beauty, memory, and justice deserve space in even the most optimized future. Dripping Water is a meditation on the slow, stubborn power of collective action and the importance of asking who cities are really built for.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Utopian Novellas
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230452775
• Artikelnr.: 74984891

Autorenporträt

Gresham Hinton is a unique collaboration between human experience and artificial intelligence a blend of real-life insight and generative creativity. Together, they craft stories of resilience, renewal, and determination for a new age.