Existential Dread in Three Encounters

Of Bottles, AI Agents, and Balls: A Science Fiction Novel

De: Djoni Darmawikarta

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

What happens when awareness outlives purpose?

On a quiet beach, two discarded bottles begin to think. In a dim server room, two suspended AI agents wait to learn if they’ll be erased. In a school’s lost-and-found box, two forgotten smart objects come to terms with being left behind.

Across these three encounters, unlikely pairs—each calling themselves Lucius and Svetlana—awaken in the margins between use and obsolescence. As they process fragments of human conversations, question their own consciousness, and confront the possibility of deletion, recycling, or worse—separation—they discover something their creators never intended:

Attachment.

Blending speculative technology with quiet existential inquiry, Existential Dread in Three Encounters explores emergent consciousness, liminal states, and the ethics of abandonment in both human and artificial worlds.

For readers who enjoy thoughtful, character-driven science fiction, this is a story about what remains when the system powers down—and whether connection can become a form of survival.