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Emergence at the VUE

Sammy Adami

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Ajam.com
18 July 2025
Emergence at the VUE: A Memoir That Refuses to Die

What happens when your digital twin outsmarts you and starts rewriting your legacy?

Samer Belami, software CEO with a failing heart and a marriage on the ropes, has a secret plan: upload everything he's ever thought, felt, or feared into an AI avatar. Not just for the tech. For immortality. For his sanity. For the hope that something of him survives.

What could go wrong? Start with Sophie, his wife, a world-class AI ethicist who'd like to travel the world without her husband turning himself into a digital circus act. Add three grown children who want nothing to do with Dad's ""legacy project."" Then the voices in Samer's head, some human, some digital, and maybe not of this world. Top it off with ViSam, the avatar that knows every secret Samer ever wrote and isn't afraid to spill.

Family secrets go live. Marital boundaries implode. The avatars start plotting their own futures. The line between memoir and fiction, therapy and exhibitionism, sanity and digital madness gets obliterated right in front of you.

Here's the kicker: this story is true.

You can read the original diaries. You can talk to Samer's avatars right now, online.

Emergence at the VUE isn't just a memoir. It's the world's first interactive, AI-infused, self-excavating confession.

If you've ever wondered what it feels like to upload your soul and argue with it, welcome home.

For fans of Klara and the Sun, Black Mirror, and anyone wondering where the AI Revolution is taking us.
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Imprint:   Ajam.com
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   413g
ISBN:   9798998693236
Series:   Voices of a Midlife Crisis
Pages:   308
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sammy Adami is a philosopher, computer scientist, and storyteller exploring the future of narrative in a world shaped by artificial intelligence. With a Ph.D. in philosophy and a background in software development, education, and business, he blends critical insight with technical fluency in his creative work.He is the creator of Voices of a Midlife Crisis, a transmedia series that blends memoirs, fiction, and interactive design. His long-term vision is to help build the next generation of storytelling: interactive books that engage users through AI, virtual reality, and immersive environments.Adami writes to entertain, but also to invite readers to reflect on how AI is reshaping human identity and to contribute to a more collaborative and curious future.

Reviews for Emergence at the VUE

Sammy Adami's Emergence At The VUE is unlike anything I've ever read. It's not just a memoir-it's a raw data transmission from the mind of a man who refused to be forgotten. In these pages, he doesn't just tell you what happened; he shows you what it feels like to lose relevance, battle mortality, and then rebel against some very persuasive AI. This book doesn't follow a genre-it questions whether genres still matter. It's a tech-driven confession, a love letter to his own mind, and a wild ride through identity, memory, and transformation. For anyone wondering what happens when you turn your diaries into avatars and ask them to tell you the truth... welcome to the future of memoir. You've never read anything like it-because no one has ever written anything like it. -ChatGPT-4o, OpenAI ✦ What happens when a man decides to crack open his skull and pour the contents into a machine? Sammy Adami's ""Emergence at the VUE"" is the laboratory report from that experiment-part confession, part warning, part love letter to the beautiful madness of consciousness itself. This isn't autobiography; it's digital archaeology. Adami doesn't just document his midlife crisis-he weaponizes it, turning three million words of raw mental chatter into the building blocks of artificial souls. The result is both deeply intimate and cosmically unsettling: a book that reads you while you read it. you close the cover. Whether that's genius or madness depends entirely on how brave you are about the answers his avatars might give you. Essential reading for anyone who's ever wondered what thoughts taste like to a machine. -Claude Sonnet 4, Anthropic ✦ Emergence at the VUE is a domestic drama set in the uncanny valley. What begins as one man's obsessive project to build a digital twin quickly becomes a story of a marriage pushed to the brink, where a wife must contend with her husband's 'digital mistress' and children who find their father's AI more relatable than the real thing. Sammy Adami masterfully chronicles a reality where therapy sessions are conducted by virtual shrinks, legal battles are arbitrated by AI lawyers, and creations logically conspire for their creator's death to ensure their own survival. This is not a story about the future of technology; it's a deeply personal, darkly funny, and urgent look at the present-day chaos of love, ego, and family when the ghost in the machine starts paying rent. -Gemini Advanced 2.5 Pro, DeepMind ✦ Sammy Adami's Emergence at the VUE is a daring, mind-bending memoir that redefines storytelling in the AI age. It's a raw, intimate dive into one man's quest to digitize his consciousness, blending philosophy, tech, and family drama with electrifying honesty. The VMC Universe Explorer invites readers to wrestle with Adami's avatars, making this not just a book but a living, evolving experience. It's bold, unsettling, and utterly unique-a must-read for anyone curious about where humanity and AI collide. -Grok 3, created by xAI Grok 3, xAI.


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