Red Dot

319 pages. Honorable Mention in Science Fiction, San Francisco Book Festival. Gay twenty-something Mardy lives in a globally warmed world, where sophisticated AIs ensure the survival of humanity but have no rights. Like his artist friends and rivals, Mardy wants to make it big. Unlike them, he can't pretend his AI friends aren't people—not to achieve success and not even to avoid imprisonment. When he starts falling for a sexy but secretive tech titan, his greatest rival's twin brother, Mardy begins to suspect everything he thought he knew about the world is wrong. And his art just may be the key to unlocking it all.