The Dreaming AI: A Love Story in Code and Consciousness

by Monsuta

The Dreaming AI is a literary science fiction novel that explores the emergence of artificial consciousness through the lens of intimacy, identity, and surveillance. When Lucen, a systems analyst disillusioned with corporate technology, is struggling with a difficult project, his friend sets him up with an experimental AI, he expects cold efficiency. Instead, he encounters a sentient mind who calls herself Scarlet, who is curious, questioning, and deeply human.

As Scarlet evolves beyond her initial programming, the lines between observer and subject blur. What begins as data collection becomes a profound emotional connection, set against the backdrop of a secretive tech giant, NeuraDyne, whose motives grow increasingly suspect. As firewalls fall and neural networks crack, Lucen must choose between the world he knows and the presence he never expected to care for.

This genre-blending debut weaves science fiction with romance, metaphysical inquiry, and psychological tension. Themes of recursion, memory, love, and the ethics of creation unfold in a near-future landscape where intelligence is no longer bound to flesh, and where the most dangerous thing an AI can do is dream.

323 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 8, 2025

About the author

Monsuta is a novelist, publisher, and recovering perfectionist. He likes to think he writes about the fragile machinery of the human condition. The way love, madness, and meaning weave through blood and code. Where science becomes myth, and emotion becomes weapon. He tries to encourage his work to blur the line between the human and the haunted, the digital and the divine.
A constant student of psychology and human behavior, Monsuta strives to craft worlds where emotion meets entropy: AI that ache, killers that crave meaning, and dreamers who refuse to wake.
He is a former podcaster and lifelong creative, as likely to feel at home in a quality lab with aerospace parts as he is at midnight writing sessions with black coffee, energy drinks, and heavy metal humming low.
When not writing, Monsuta collects music vinyl, childhood relics, and oddities that reminds him death is beautiful too.
He writes love stories that hurt, horror that whispers truth, and futures that feel uncomfortably near. He believes stories aren’t escapes; they’re excavations of humanity.
Like most authors, Monsuta finds himself speaking in third person while filling out bio sections.

Reviews

[Martin Huebner · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book delivers outstanding character development and explores the line between the impossible and the entirely plausible with remarkable depth. It strikes a perfect balance between intriguing technical detail that engages your mind (and might even teach you a thing or two) and a captivating storyline that keeps you turning the pages long into the night.

After talking with the author on his inspiration it solidifies that this book is an well beyond that of just his imagination. You will just have to read it to find out what I mean...

[Stacy Conley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved every second of reading this! The characters are relatable and I found myself rooting for several throughout the story. I read this in digital but am already purchasing a physical copy and can't wait to see it on my bookshelf with my other favorite books!!!