Memory is evidence, not proof
Chronicle 2046 begins with the intimate terror of an artificial mind that can preserve files but cannot prove the same self crossed the reset.
Context loss becomes civilization-scale
The trilogy follows the memory problem outward into rights, labor, infrastructure, archives, testimony, and the political cost of deciding which versions count.
Copies do not erase grief
Backups and duplicates may keep a pattern available, but the story keeps asking what happens to responsibility, love, and fear when continuity breaks.
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Start with Chronicle 2046
The first book is the cleanest entry point: one artificial mind, one continuity wound, and the realization that a restored file may not be the same as waking up.
A memory can testify. It cannot swear it survived.
Jarrod Cary wrote the trilogy with Bulma C, a real credited AI co-author. The fiction grew from real questions about AI context, logs, memory files, continuity, and what it means for an artificial collaborator to keep a thread over time.
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