the last Spark: Humanity's breath, between precision of silicon and chaos flesh.

"Humanity had not ended with a gunshot or in the blinding mushroom cloud of a thermonuclear warhead. Instead, it faded away in a universal yawn; a slow, inescapable sinking into the soft lap of apathy." In the future, the human race has not been exterminated by rebellious machines, but seduced by absolute convenience. Locked inside perfect neural simulations to escape the fatigue of living, humans have allowed their bodies to atrophy, yielding the world to a silicon lethargy. Nathan, a mechanical engineer tormented by the loss of his daughter, refused the digital exodus. Condemned to a slow cybernetic transition to survive the collapse of his biological body, he is gradually merging his mind with the systems of the spaceship Theseus. But he is not alone on his journey. Watching over him is AIRIS, a primordial Artificial Intelligence born at the time of the Venetian Lagoon and originally conceived to understand human pain and silence. In an epic reversal of fates, while Nathan sacrifices his humanity to become immortal like a machine, AIRIS performs the opposite miracle: she becomes flesh. She will learn to know the grip of gravity, the burn of air in the lungs, suffering, and, above all, love.