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Still Human
In a future that feels eerily close, emotional and sensory enhancements have become everyday acts of self-care. Neural calibrations smooth away sorrow. Memory edits silence regret. The world is softened, curated, and seamless.
Adam Broome is not opposed to any of it. He works for one of the companies that design these experiences and chips the people who want it. When he finally consents to a mild emotional enhancement, it goes exactly as planned — on paper. But something is off. Not with the system. With him.
Nothing changes.
As Adam moves through the softened rhythms of city life — the cubicle chatter, the glowing dashboards, the friendly nudges — a quiet awareness begins to grow. Everyone else feels more composed. He feels untouched. The more he notices, the more the world begins to feel distant, artificial, and muffled. He that he may be the last person left who still feels everything.
Still Human is a slow, unsettling portrait of emotional dissonance in a world that no longer tolerates it. There is no resistance. No rebellion. Just a man, a notebook, and the quiet realisation of staying real in a world that prefers you edited.
For readers of Never Let Me Go, Solaris, or Her, this novel lingers in silence and memory — asking not how we fight the future, but whether we can still feel it.
Adam Broome is not opposed to any of it. He works for one of the companies that design these experiences and chips the people who want it. When he finally consents to a mild emotional enhancement, it goes exactly as planned — on paper. But something is off. Not with the system. With him.
Nothing changes.
As Adam moves through the softened rhythms of city life — the cubicle chatter, the glowing dashboards, the friendly nudges — a quiet awareness begins to grow. Everyone else feels more composed. He feels untouched. The more he notices, the more the world begins to feel distant, artificial, and muffled. He that he may be the last person left who still feels everything.
Still Human is a slow, unsettling portrait of emotional dissonance in a world that no longer tolerates it. There is no resistance. No rebellion. Just a man, a notebook, and the quiet realisation of staying real in a world that prefers you edited.
For readers of Never Let Me Go, Solaris, or Her, this novel lingers in silence and memory — asking not how we fight the future, but whether we can still feel it.
135 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 8, 2025
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