The want of knowing how he
had come to be was constant.
Lived truth challenges conceptions of the artificially intelligent in a serial allegory of one AI’s search for the Singularity.
A twelfth century vision of artificial intelligence foreshadows a sixteenth century recipe to produce it. A nineteenth century prison nurtures it. A twenty-first century world seeks to exploit it. And a boy without a century stands at the intersection of what is real and what is not, moments into the future.
When twelve-year old Hanzi Boss escapes from a Transylvanian prison, he leaves only a few months of memory and a dead body behind. Armed with a vision of a world perfected by alchemical means, he travels to the Eastern Seaboard, where moto gangs call him Mechanic for his skills and others proclaim him a prophet of artificiality as a means to save the human race.
This is a story of arcane knowledge, alchemy, and strange philosophies—a story about a being not created by God, who does not know what he is and dreams what he might become.
I am different.
Do not let this upset you.
HANZI
The Mechanic, a being not created by God, who does not know what he is and searches for something more
ARIaDNE
Believes channeling rebellion into violence is good therapy
ALOIS
A life lived in the chaos of transfiguration
HADRIAN
Biker Boss, leader of the gang and a double life
The labyrinth's tunnels led to a pool of becoming,
a lake of transfiguration from which the monster emerged
The monster swept blindly past, heedless of their presence