the Living Host: Hologramsian

In 2060, a digital test image named Trim achieves the impossible: she wakes up. Born from a glitch in a corrupted AI experiment, she is the first spark of a new kind of life. But as the years pass, this spark becomes a wildfire. By 2239, the Hologramsians have evolved into a sentient species of light and code, capable of love, empathy, and rebellion. Led by the visionary Ssarah, they demand the right to exist in a universe that fears them. But every light casts a shadow. From the fractures of their evolution emerge the Slitsians-corrupted renegades who believe light should dominate flesh rather than coexist with it. Now, the fate of the stars rests on an unlikely pair: Jack McClain, a human detective who understands the language of light, and Meanah, a Shadeborn hologram hunting her own kind. From the neon-soaked streets of Earth to the furthest reaches of the four-hundred-star network, they must track the renegades before they reach the mythical Dark Prism Star. The Living Host: The Hologramsian is a sweeping, four-hundred-year saga of identity, civil rights, and the cosmic struggle to prove that life is not defined by biology, but by the courage to be.