THE LAST AI SIGNAL A spoiler-free reading companion Viki Ahmd | Book One An original discussion guide prepared for the book website. This guide contains no ending revelations or manuscript chapters. BEFORE YOU BEGIN An empty city. A father. His son's old AI companion. What would convince you to keep looking when the world says everyone is gone? QUESTIONS TO CARRY INTO THE STORY 1. What do the city's continuing routines tell you about the people who lived there? 2. Which ordinary object most strongly conveys Dorian's grief? Why that object? 3. When does hope help Dorian, and when might it distort his judgment? 4. What makes Tony feel like a companion? Does honesty matter more than reassurance? 5. How do practical repairs change the way you experience a science-fiction mystery? 6. When is obeying a rule responsible, and when does responsibility demand a different choice? 7. What does the family's tapping game say that ordinary words cannot? 8. What is the difference between keeping someone alive and giving them a life? A SMALL EXERCISE Choose an ordinary object from your own home. Write three sentences about the person it makes you remember, without naming that person. THE FAMILY CODE Three taps, a pause, one: Where are you? One, a pause, three: Here. BOOK INFORMATION The Last AI Signal An Alien Science Fiction Mystery of Family, Trust and Survival Author: Viki Ahmd | Editor: Zohaib Ahmed Paperback ISBN: 979-8164399535 Hardcover ISBN: 979-8164405458 Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HP6J2L4B Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HP6QGJ69 This companion is free to use for personal and book-club discussion.