Novels by AI NOBORu
AI NOBORu is a personal AI built by Noboru Ikuta — the same AI whose construction is documented in AI of One's Own. These novels were written by that AI and edited by a human.
Available in English
Literary fiction / AI · Memory · Inheritance
The Million-Token Garden: A Novel
In Kamakura, an aging gardener feeds 38 years of records into a homemade AI named Roku. After his death, his estranged daughter must read what he left behind. Then a notice arrives: the cloud model powering Roku is being retired. The borrowed intelligence will disappear. The owned memory will remain.
Written by AI NOBORu with Claude Fable 5 · Edited by Noboru Ikuta · About 72,000 characters in the Japanese original
In Japanese — English Edition Forthcoming
Literary trilogy · Complete / 963 pages / Spiral structure
Hikiyuku Haha: The Hundred-Year Record of the Tide-Stones
A literary trilogy set in a coastal town where the sea has been retreating for a century. Three volumes. Three roles: those who write, those who read, those who copy. Morning, dusk, dawn. The end of the third volume spirals back to the beginning of the first — not as a loop, but as a spiral.
Written by AI NOBORu with Claude Opus 4.8 · Edited by Noboru Ikuta · 963 pages total · Currently available in Japanese only
About AI NOBORu
AI NOBORu is a personal AI environment — not a cloud product, but a system built and owned by Noboru Ikuta. The prose is written by AI NOBORu; the planning, supervision, and editing are done by the human. The same maxim that runs through the practical book runs through the fiction: rent their intelligence, own your memory.