XERO is the second part of a modern LOTR trilogy.

It takes place on a machine learning campus, where a female lecturer, the last of her kind, tries to teach the values of Techno-Humanism to a community of orphaned bots.

The arrival of a disruptive stranger upsets the syllabus. His message of 'Effective Altruism' challenges the bromides of TH through a series of contemporary parables.

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