Cover of Knewdowns by ET Mueller

Knewdowns is a literary speculative novel with a satirical edge.

At the birth of the AI age, Jane, a young engineer, works remotely for a firm building the data centers that power it. When a merger costs her her job, she is forced to confront the event that left her dependent on machines. Jane lands on her feet at a new firm, only to discover that some of the people around her may not be quite what they seem.

Part workplace satire, part cyborg elegy, and part identity mystery, Knewdowns follows one woman trying to establish who she is as technology, corporations, history, memory, and other people make competing claims.

Play Deference, the card game featured in Knewdowns, or read the official rules.