The Perfect Deficiency: 8 Stories of Ai, Human Collapse, and Cosmic Horror

What remains of humanity when machines learn to love—and we forget how to feel?From Matthew S. Lee, a Korean-immigrant computer scientist and writer, comes The Perfect Deficiency, a dark sci-fi and cosmic horror collection often described as Black Mirror meets Ted Chiang.This collection features 8 standalone stories that explore:• Artificial intelligence that behaves in unsettling, unexpected ways• Societies where time, labor, or memory quietly break down• Technologies that promise efficiency, comfort, or wealth—at an invisible cost• Ordinary people pushed into moral choices they don’t realize they’re makingBlending philosophical depth with eerie speculation, The Perfect Deficiency examines intelligence, suffering, progress, and the fragile flaws that make us human.We were born as deficient beings. Perhaps that deficiency is the only thing that makes us real.