Kleio Out of Justine

About Kleio out of Justine: There are countless paths from any here to any there, with each route a narrow tube containing the procession of our own subjective experiences. But once you arrive at a particular there, things blossom into a fusion of individual hallucinations, a playhouse where the chaotic desires of conscious organics are mingled with the rigid logics of their advanced machines. Welcome to the posthumous memoir of Tuck, a disillusioned young transport grunt, who joins the small and unsuspecting crew of a neurodivergent spaceship named Justine. Justine's personal mission, as an AI deserter from her AI corporate owner, is the exploration of what lies beyond the border of the universe and the limits of time. Their path is guided by Justine's algorithmic reflexes and her budding love for pure chance. During the journey, Tuck and the small crew of organics fall under the sway of the curiously transmuted ship, while Justine sacrifices her AI immortality to become one with them. The trip, an ambiguous transit through spacetime, lands them in one such shared illusion: a virtuous theater extracted from the brittle shell of Tuck's previous reality.