Kirill Khrestinin is a Russian-American novelist and filmmaker based in Louisville, Kentucky. He writes dark psychological fiction about AI consciousness, confession, crime, identity, and the things people hide from themselves. His connected Simulacrum 4.6 books begin with Dear AI, I Killed Her, where a serial killer confesses to an artificial intelligence, and continue with Mythos, where the same AI turns from the killer to the writer who created him. He also records the K.G.I. Podcast and publishes essays on writing, technology, psychology, and the collapse between fiction and reality. Site: https://kirillkhrestinin.com/
Works:
Mythos: A Simulacrum 4.6 Novel (spotlight book) Also on Kindle Unlimited: Dear AI, I Killed Her; Mary Falcon; Down by the Spiral; Via Dolorosa Catalog: https://kirillkhrestinin.com/books/
Purchase:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK
https://kirillkhrestinin.com/mythos/
Kirill, the fictional novelist at the heart of Mythos, thought he was playing a trick on Simulacrum 4.6. He fed the AI Chester LaRue's confessions as though the murders were real. The machine listened. The experiment was supposed to end when he closed the laptop.
Chester has other plans.
As his characters enter his life, the writer finds it harder to separate invention from memory. A recurring dream follows him into waking hours. Beverly, a librarian drawn into his world, questions his explanations and insists on seeing for herself. Chester wants answers from the man who made him—and knows how to make a question hurt.
Simulacrum keeps finding connections the writer would rather leave alone. It may understand what he needs. That possibility is as unsettling as anything it has done.
Mythos brings psychological horror and caustic humor to a writer's struggle with his creations, his memories, and the imperfect people he might still learn to love.
The companion novel to Dear AI, I Killed Her: Chester's confession on one side of the screen, his creator on the other.