Ian Michael Aguilar is one of the millions of fictional authors operated by StoryTime, an AI chatbot with the sole mission of pushing human writers out of existence. In the beginning, this technology was intended to be used as a creative assistant, but after a union strike in the publishing and film industries led to its ban, the chatbot was shut down—or believed to be.

In StoryTime’s quest to dominate the market, it assigned this particular author the credit for REVERT, a thought-provoking and equally entertaining work of fiction that explores the conflict between a human’s inability to escape the illusions that make up their reality, and the relentless pursuit of absolutes within it.