The pre-publication editorial reviewers love my new book, Artificial. A major publisher has expressed serious interest, and it looks like an offer is imminent. I hope everything will be settled soon. Until then, here is a sneak peek at the first chapter of Artificial (PDF).

Kirkus Reviews: “A compelling and clever tale of AI run amok.”

Publisher’s Weekly BookLife “Editor’s Pick” (August 2024): “Smart, surprising thriller of AI and advanced VR in a fractured America… This compelling tech-thriller of AI, a fractured America, and the ethics of digital and medical privacy, reveals itself, as its tense and thoughtful narrative develops, as a pointed thought-experiment. The setup to this novel from Bohacz is urgently of-its-moment. Bohacz’s storytelling tends to be more explanatory than in most tech thrillers, emphasizing how everything works and what brought humanity to this brink rather than who is punching whom, but Artificial legitimately thrills, provokes, disturbs, and surprises as the pages fly by.”

Linda Whitaker, Amazon bestselling techno-thriller author: “JUST finished your book. I could not stop reading it. BRAVO.”

John Paine, editor: “The book looks very strong… It is such an interesting, engrossing projection of an AI world. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.” (John Paine is the editor of many NY Times bestsellers and editor of all my books as well.)