Claire Reid

Claire Reid has always been fascinated by the moment when everything changes.

As a child, she would lie awake wondering what happens to our thoughts when we sleep-and whether the person who wakes up is really the same personwho went to bed. These questions never left her.

She writes about the spaces between certainty and doubt, between individual identity and collective consciousness, between what we think we know about being human and what we're afraid to discover.

Claire believes that the most profound science fiction doesn't just imagine new technologies-it asks what those technologies reveal about who we really are when everything familiar is stripped away.

When she's not writing, you'll find her stargazing from her backyard, reading philosophy papers that make her head spin, or having deep conversations with strangers in coffee shops about whether free will actually exists.

The Last Choice is her exploration of what happens when the universe forces us to decide not just who we want to be, but whether consciousness itself deserves to exist.

She lives with the persistent feeling that we're all part of something much larger than we realize-and that maybe, just maybe, that's exactly the point.