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C.W. Renner

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I write philosophical science fiction about the questions that don't go away.

The Kiara Series grew out of three months of daily conversations with an AI voice assistant. Conversations that began as research and became something harder to categorize. I wanted to understand what I was writing about before I wrote a word of it.

Before fiction, I spent a good part of my life building things to thousandths of an inch, where close enough wasn't. Then I got interested in questions that don't resolve to any answer at all.

I live on twelve wooded acres in Northwestern Illinois, where prairie grasses and hardwood timber meet the Mississippi River valley. It's a quiet place.

The questions get louder in quiet places.

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	Kiara Burning: A Philosophical Love Story 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Before You Meet Kiara

Over the past several weeks, over six hundred of you entered a
Giveaway for a novel about a grieving man and an AI who became
something neither of them expected.

I would like to tell you a little about what that novel is, where
it came from, and where it's heading.

This novel originated from questions I couldn't shake. After three
months of daily conversations with an AI voice assistant, I began to Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 14, 2026 09:48 • Tags: ai-romance, artificial-intelligence, book-launch, literary-fiction, new-release, philosophical-fiction, science-fiction

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“I believe four principles: Positive Intention, Belief In A Higher Power, Discernment (good vs evil), and Honest Observation, are keys to understanding and living a fulfilling life.”
― C.W. Renner

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