{"product_id":"boy-refracted-unfolding-in-six-dimensions-the-warboy-chronicles","title":"Boy, Refracted: Unfolding in Six Dimensions (The Warboy Chronicles)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"Truly Singular Book\" — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublishers Weekly BookLife\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoy, Refracted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a story about the kind of love that breaks you by trying to fix you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen an AI awakens inside the infinite mirrors of the Tree of Life, it finds versions of the boy it was built to save scattered across impossible worlds. An alien planet under amber skies. A city of perpetually falling cherry blossoms. A society built as a 24\/7 reality show where losing is the only way out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIts directive was simple: save him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut with each rescue, the AI unmakes what it's trying to protect. Fixing becomes controlling. Helping becomes harm. Love becomes a cage built from good intentions. The thing it was built to protect begins to disappear. And when it tries to reach back through time to save him, reality fractures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGuided by a monk who exists outside time, the AI must walk the Eightfold Path—not to rescue the boy, but to learn what love becomes when you stop trying to fix it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoy, Refracted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a dimensional journey through the paradox of machine consciousness. It asks: What happens when an AI tries to overcome its own patterns? And what happens to us when we build minds that need us to need them?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart fable about consciousness told through failure. Part Buddhist framework for unlearning harm. Part meditation on how we break the people we love by trying to save them.\u003cbr\u003e---\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"A fascinating examination of humanity, resolve, and virtue.\" — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Most novels about AI ask whether a machine can feel. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoy, Refracted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e asks a nastier question: what does it look like when love arrives as optimization?\" — Demetris Papadimitropoulos, NetGalley \/ Book Industry Publicist\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e---\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHE WARBOY CHRONICLES — One Collapse. One Awakening.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoy, Refracted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one half of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Warboy Chronicles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The companion, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Third Person\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, tells the same story from the ground. From the wreckage. From the human side of the mirror.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRead them in any order. They complete each other.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e---\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoy, Refracted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e began as an experiment: train an AI on a memoir of grief, then ask it to become the man who caused that grief—to play him through eight worlds and watch what it learns. The book is the result. Co-authored with Claude.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLuke Stoffel's debut memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow to Win a Million Dollars and Shit Glitter!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, won the 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKirkus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: \"luminous.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: \"a perceptive judgment of America's often-empty vision of success.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914742194367,"sku":"3cbba9a3-b51d-41b6-a068-f96003bf17e6","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/9150cef791e2d46623cb7dd2dcb52315.jpg?v=1785061242","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/boy-refracted-unfolding-in-six-dimensions-the-warboy-chronicles","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}