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Do Spiders Leave Footprints? is a literary speculative novel set in near-future London. Its characters live among AI systems that genuinely improve daily life, while confronting questions about memory, evidence, human judgement and the limits of what any system can know. The book favours human relationships, an accumulating sense of unease and the investigative pull of a mystery over conventional AI-apocalypse action.

Adrian remembers a yellow chair. The photograph showed a red chair. From that small disagreement, the novel explores memory, useful AI and the human relationships that shape the accounts of reality we accept.

Try the writing: When Artificial Intelligence Is Useful Rather Than Evil includes an extract about a London commute made better by technology.

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