Afterlife

Haunted by grief in a near-future where sadness can be outsourced, April Neal considers a new outpatient procedure: an AI implant that can replicate her mind, replace it with a digital copy, and spare her loved ones the pain of loss. Set one product launch from today, Afterlife is an introspective sci-fi thriller about art, identity, and the slow erasure of the self in the age of artificial intelligence.