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A doorway into questions that recur throughout my fiction: what consciousness is, how much of reality we truly perceive, and what may exist beyond the boundaries we take for granted.
The Thirteenth DreamThe Thirteenth Dream
After a shattering bus accident, Lea wakes beside a flawless robotic Samoyed — a replica of the dog she lost a year ago. But Bao speaks, remembers a different past, and insists she has owned him for months.
As reality fractures around her, Lea is drawn into questions of AI, consciousness, grief and what makes human existence worth protecting.
Earlier books
Fantasy, speculative fiction and reimagined Chinese legend — published in English, with Chinese editions also available.
The Marked Path trilogy
A new speculative-fiction trilogy about consciousness, identity and the limits of what we believe to be real. It begins with an inexplicable event, strange marks, and a question that grows more disturbing as Alex Li searches for answers: if you can no longer tell which thoughts are your own, what remains of you?
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