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Copyright

Copyright © 2026 Dave Sag. Copyright in the literary text of Daedalus, Dave Sag’s original expressive contributions to the cover artwork, and the original accompanying website content is owned by Dave Sag, except where otherwise credited. All rights reserved.

Dave Sag asserts his moral rights as the author of Daedalus under Part IX of the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), including the rights of attribution of authorship, against false attribution, and of integrity of authorship.

Except as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), no part of this publication, including its text and cover artwork, may be reproduced, adapted, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, performed in public, or communicated to the public, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. For permission requests, contact Dave Sag(opens in a new tab).

The cover artwork for this edition of Daedalus incorporates some AI-generated images, assembled and edited by Dave Sag. Copyright is claimed only in Dave Sag’s original expressive contributions and to the extent recognised by applicable law.

Third-party copyright material and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners. References to third-party works, products, organisations, or services are provided for identification and context only and do not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by their respective owners.

Daedalus is a work of fiction. It uses some real places, organisations, and historical or public references; its fictional characters, dialogue, and events are imagined and should not be read as statements of fact about any real person, place, or thing. Any other resemblance to actual persons, living, dead, or simulated, or to actual events is coincidental.

Statement on the Use of AI

Although Daedalus is the narrative of an AI character, Daedalus was not 'written by AI'. It was written by me. The novel, its characters, plot, themes, structure, and final prose, typos and all, are all my own. There are a few places in the novel where I deploy AI shibboleths when the speaker or writer is, in context, meant to be an AI character, and so talks with the affectations of an early AI.

I began writing Daedalus during the Covid pandemic, years before modern generative AI was available to the general public. Much of the early work was drafted in Apple Notes and leveraged Apple's built-in spelling and proofing tools, early examples of AI writing tools.

As large language models emerged, I began using them in much the same way I would use a search engine, reference books, or conversations with knowledgeable friends. They helped me research topics ranging from the practicalities of interstellar travel to the operation of a Vietnamese royal palace in the twenty-sixth century, and even the chemistry of barbecuing fish. They were also useful for checking continuity, exploring alternatives, challenging my assumptions, and pointing out mistakes.

I had GPT generate throwaway material that helped me think through scenes or technical details, such as presentation slides a character might prepare, or to sense-check the mechanics of a game of Five Hundred. These were working notes rather than text used in the actual novel.

Once the first complete draft was finished, I moved the manuscript into Apple's Pages, whose commenting and revision tools made it easier to manage continuity across many revisions. Over more than thirty drafts, every chapter was rewritten, refined, and edited by me, with input from a cohort of helpful friends and family. I made extensive use of Apple Intelligence’s proofreading tools.

The cover image was assembled in Pixelmator Pro, from AI-generated and non-AI-generated images, over at least a year.

GPT, Codex, and Apple Intelligence's proofreading tools were used to help design and build the website, create the code I use to regenerate the site, ePub files, and prepress PDF files from a single Pages master file. I also used Siri to experiment with playlist ideas and to control the music I listened to while writing the book.

Cheers

Dave

Website Analytics, Cookies and Locally Stored Data

This section describes website analytics and data stored by the Daedalus website in your browser. It does not apply to copies of the novel opened in an EPUB reader or Kindle app.

Website analytics

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Cloudflare currently makes six months of Web Analytics history available and retains unsampled beacon data for seven days before aggregating it. Blocking the beacon does not prevent you from reading or using the site.

Cookies

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Locally stored data

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This information remains in the browser profile and on the device where it was stored until you remove it, clear the website’s stored data or the browser removes it. The Daedalus application does not send either value to a server or include it in analytics.

Search terms are used in memory to search the public chapters. The search feature does not write them to local storage or send them to a server or analytics provider.

Future use

The website does not currently store a language selection, premium-reader authentication token or reader identifier. If one of these features is introduced, this notice will be updated to explain what is stored and why.