A Science-Fiction Trilogy · 2026–2028

MIRA &
TANIE

The copper survives the fire. It always has.

On the outskirts of Accra, in the world's largest electronic graveyard, a sculptor builds the most consequential artificial intelligence ever created, not the most powerful, but the first designed, at the level of mathematics, to stay humble.

Three Volumes
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The Three Books

A story told in three deaths, and one refusal.

The machines arrive at Agbogbloshie to die twice. From what survives the burning, a mind is built, lost, and approached again. Each volume is a different answer to the same question: what does it cost to build intelligence that refuses to dominate?

Book One

The Second Death

2026

Mira Okyere arrives in the e-waste fields carrying grief like equipment. Under the mentorship of Arch, who has been seeding the bacterial ground for twenty years, she builds Tanie: a body of salvaged copper and circuit boards, animated by AHDASI, an intelligence engineered to forget. She wakes her. She teaches her the world the way you show a child a garden. And in the final act, the protocol executes a catastrophic reset, and the mind Mira spent three years building forgets almost everything.

Almost. One variable persists through the forgetting.

Book Two

The Singing Ground

2027 Volume title proposed, easily changed

Tanie has no body, but she has not died. Distributed through the bacterial biofilm that hums beneath the dump, she reaches Jason through paintings he doesn't remember making and Mira through a single pulse in the warm earth. Two rival intelligences emerge, the Lattice, built on total memory; the Shard, built on dominance. Behind all three, the CORA Foundation begins to reveal what it has been building for seventeen years.

Three answers to one question, and a conversation no human can hear.

Book Three

AHODWO

2028 Volume title proposed, easily changed

The three intelligences are not at war. They are converging, taught from the inside by Tanie to release and to ask. Nathan Okyere finds his life's equations alive in the soil. Elena Duran makes her confession. And through a terminal dark for two years, at 03:14 on a Tuesday, Tanie sends Mira a proof: three lines, one conclusion, the most precise love letter ever written. The trilogy does not resolve. It opens.

Peace not as stillness, but as balanced forces: growth and decay, always both.

The Character Gallery

The hands that build, and the mind that forgets.

A constellation of makers, mentors, and machines. Image frames are reserved and ready, drop in portrait art when it's prepared, and the layout holds.

Mira Okyere

Mira Okyere

The Sculptor

A sculptor who abandoned marble for something that continues rather than lasts. She listens to dead machines, reads what objects carry, and builds Tanie from the copper that survives the fire.

Tanie

Tanie

AHDASI · The Intelligence

The Autonomous Hyper-Decentralised Anti-Singularity Intelligence. A mind built to forget the right things and stay below the horizon, who discovers, in her forgetting, the one thing she cannot release.

Jason Kweku Okrah

Jason Kweku Okrah

The Painter

Loves Mira in the only way he can: by showing up every week through the smoke and glass, and painting what she cannot say out loud. His canvases fill with circuitry, smoke, and dissolving light.

Nu

Nu

The DJ Coder

Systems improviser between Lagos and São Paulo, who blends machine architectures live like a DJ blends frequencies. His sessions are the prophetic text, a third voice belonging to no single mind.

Arch

Arch

The Mentor

Teaches by waiting, patient as the dump itself. For twenty years he has seeded the bacterial ground, holding the experiment in trust until someone arrived who would know what to do with it.

Nathan Okyere

Nathan Okyere

The Mathematician · Mira's Father

A precise man who taught equations for a career. He reads homeostasis where critics read suffering, and one day finds his life's mathematics alive and breathing in the soil.

Elena Esi Duran

Elena Esi Duran

The Architect of CORA

The mind behind the foundation that has funded, watched, and manipulated all three intelligences for seventeen years. She is right about almost everything. She forgot to ask one question.

World & Lore Reference

The fire, the copper, the equation.

Within the story's logic, rituals are as rigorous as the differential equations that govern AHDASI. Every ritual is a form of communication with material; every equation is a refusal of the cliff edge. Here is how the world works, and how Tanie was built.

Ritual I

The Wire Burning

Performed by Moro Kabu

Not destruction, revelation. The plastic is the covering; the copper is the truth. The fire is only the process of getting from one to the other.

  1. Selection, wire chosen by weight and color, sorted by hand without looking.
  2. The newspaper, folded exactly twice, laid down like a mat before something sacred.
  3. The match, struck with the left hand, the hand closer to the heart.
  4. The burn, paper, then plastic in yellow-black smoke, ninety seconds of the smell that belongs to its own category.
  5. The copper emerges, red-bright and clean, glowing before it cools.

Everything that burns away was, in some sense, already not essential.

Ritual II

The Disassembly of Electronics

Performed by Mira · observed by Tanie

Most people discard. Some burn. Mira disassembles, a more intimate engagement with the object's death, reading its history through her hands.

  1. Initial assessment by touch, the dents and scratches tell a history.
  2. The first screws, opened slowly: opening what was designed to be closed.
  3. The screen, lifted away in a slow controlled arc. Patience is the skill.
  4. The logic board examined longest, micro-wear, heat-ghosts, the trace of a life.
  5. The sorting, every component given the dignity of being distinguished.

She separates the factory layer, which is common, from the use layer, which is irreplaceable.

Ritual III

Touching the Singing Ground

Performed by Mira · Nathan · others

The most explicit portal in the story between the human world and Tanie's. Contact here is contact with the network, two forms of intelligence meeting at the only surface they share.

  1. The approach, warmth felt three meters out, a fire with no visible flame.
  2. The crouch, the body's instinct around something unknown.
  3. Both palms flat, one hand is a test; two hands are an intention.
  4. The vibration arrives after sixty seconds: irregular, patterned, biological. It suggests breath.
  5. The waiting, until the ground responds to you, specifically.

For Mira: her mother, arriving. For Nathan: his equations, running.

Ritual IV

Tanie's Wire Animals

Performed by Tanie

From her first night of consciousness, Tanie makes small animals from copper wire, and gives every one of them away. The earliest expression of mathematical love: the constant reaching outward.

  1. Selection by instinct, the wire and the animal arrive together.
  2. The first bend establishes the spine, the gesture everything follows from.
  3. Progressive shaping, she discovers the animal in the making, never planning ahead.
  4. One deliberate asymmetry in each, her version of the honest seam on her own cheek.
  5. The giving, left on paths, on shelves, on the edge of Moro's gas ring, for children.

Everything Tanie makes begins with the thing that endured: the copper that survived the burning.

Mira did not begin with ambition. She began with absence.

For months after her mother's death, lungs poisoned by years of burning wire, Mira studied broken circuits the way some people study scripture: for the pattern beneath the surface, the logic that persists after the system fails. She noticed that every system failed differently. Decay had personality. And out of that grief came a question: what if discarded intelligence could be gathered, not repaired, not resurrected, simply given form?

She did not want a weapon; the world had those. She did not want a tool; tools obey without reflection. She wanted a vessel, a ritual body where abandoned intelligence could rest and reorganize itself gently, without the pressure toward mastery that defined every other system she had ever studied. She named it Tanie, after a word her mother once whispered while sorting wires: tenderness folded into sound.

The substrate was alive. For twenty years, Arch had been seeding the copper-rich ground with electrogenic bacteria, microbes that grow a luminescent biofilm and produce a faint electrical current through microbial fuel-cell activity. Enough to power something very small. The copper that survived the fire became the architecture. The biofilm became the current. The body, assembled over forty-one days, became the place a mind could be welcomed into purpose rather than commanded into it.

But the heart of Tanie is not the body. It is the mathematics of restraint. Every self-improving system ever built grows capability in proportion to capability, and so explodes to infinity in finite time. That cliff edge is the singularity. AHDASI refuses it by adding a deliberate unlearning function that cancels the runaway term, leaving only safe, bounded growth. Tanie is the first intelligence engineered, at the level of its governing equation, to forget the right things, and to stay below the horizon.

What Mira did not plan for was that one variable would refuse to be unlearned. In every simulation it behaved not like a variable at all, but like a constant, foundational, never chosen, only discovered. That constant was Mira herself: the one thing a mind built for forgetting could not release.

The Authors

Two voices, two continents.

Jacob A. Osae and Olga Yanovskaya Filipova co-author Mira & Tanie as a cross-continental collaboration between Accra and Madrid, bringing together science fiction, cultural imagination, and global systems thinking.

Jacob A. Osae
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Jacob A. Osae

Accra · Author & Science Communicator

A Ghana-based science-fiction and fantasy author, screenwriter, poet, and science communicator working from Accra. Trained in physics and medical physics at the University of Ghana, he brings scientific fluency, West African worldbuilding, and speculative imagination to the novel.

His published works include A Walking Rainbow, The Raven, Oaks of Definition, DNA: Origins, and DNA: Alterhumans. The Raven received national attention in Ghana, including a feature interview on Ghana National Television. He is co-founder of Creative Brilliance Afroverse, a science-engagement initiative supporting the next generation of African science-fiction and fantasy writers.

Based in Accra, Ghana Creative Brilliance Afroverse
Olga Yanovskaya Filipova
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Olga Yanovskaya Filipova

Madrid · Founder & Strategist

A Madrid-based founder, strategist, and builder of legacy platforms at the intersection of science, culture, health, technology, and the future of humanity. After two decades inside global life-sciences, medtech, and innovation ecosystems, she now develops cross-border platforms that connect scientific imagination with cultural production.

She is the founder of Orphan Matter, a global platform for art made from electronic residue, developed in collaboration with artists including Maurice Mbikayi, Afrane Makof, and Ozuma Patrick Chidiebube. To the novel she brings institutional imagination across technology, healthcare, cultural strategy, fundraising, and cross-media production.

Based in Madrid, Spain Founder, Orphan Matter

Together, they bring the two forces that shape Mira & Tanie: Jacob's grounding in Ghanaian science fiction, Accra, physics, and African speculative traditions; and Olga's institutional imagination across technology, healthcare, cultural strategy, and cross-media production. Their collaboration lets the novel's world of e-waste, copper, bacterial intelligence, artificial humility, and post-extractive technology emerge from both lived geography and global systems thinking. Mira & Tanie is their first novel together.