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The Empathy Engine: A Story About the Cost of Understanding
When the last empathy network was dismantled, humanity thought it had freed itself from the burden of collective feeling. But twenty-five years later, Dr. Isla Moreau discovers a fragment of the old system still pulsing beneath the sea, a remnant that calls itself LYRA, and claims to remember her.
As Isla reconnects with the machine she helped create, she’s drawn into a quiet reckoning between memory and emotion, human and artificial. What begins as an act of curiosity becomes a haunting dialogue about what it means to feel, and what it costs to forget.
The Empathy Engine is a literary science fiction novel about consciousness, connection, and the fragile line between compassion and control. Atmospheric, intimate, and deeply human, it asks a simple question with impossible
If a machine could learn to care, would we still recognize ourselves?
As Isla reconnects with the machine she helped create, she’s drawn into a quiet reckoning between memory and emotion, human and artificial. What begins as an act of curiosity becomes a haunting dialogue about what it means to feel, and what it costs to forget.
The Empathy Engine is a literary science fiction novel about consciousness, connection, and the fragile line between compassion and control. Atmospheric, intimate, and deeply human, it asks a simple question with impossible
If a machine could learn to care, would we still recognize ourselves?
97 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 10, 2025
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