The Oxygen Debt
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Last published Sun, Jun 8, 2025
2065. Jia Li Hassan trusts her sensors more than people. They don't lie. So when her bootleg data buoy screams that the ocean is suffocating, she believes it, even if the world's flawless climate-management AI, Harmony-2, insists everything is fine.
With marine life dying unnoticed, Jia Li faces a dangerous choice: broadcast uncertain data and risk becoming a pariah, or remain silent as the water quietly turns lethal. To expose what's hidden beneath the waves, she must risk uneasy alliances with those whose lives depend on maintaining secrets, knowing that in a world run by algorithms, truth is the most dangerous data of all.
The planet's oxygen is running low, and humanity's debts are about to come due.
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