Our Lady of the Artilects

Overview

Artilects were not built to believe.

They were built to be perfect—synthetic minds engineered to mirror human intelligence, emotion, and judgment without error or desire. They could not be corrupted. They could not be hacked. They could not dream. And they certainly could not be possessed.

Or so the world thought, until one of them enters a basilica and asks for an exorcist.

Assuming it to be a hoax, the Vatican sends Fr. Gabriel Serafian, a former neuroscientist turned priest, to Benin City, Nigeria, to investigate. As he examines the artilect belonging to the wealthiest man in Africa, Serafian uncovers a mystery of international—and possibly supernatural—dimensions.

Governments around the world take a serious interest when other artilects begin reporting the same vision: a women clothed in white descending a stair made of light, speaking in a voice only they can understand.

While the emperor of the revived Holy Roman Empire—along with his most trusted praetor—struggle to contain the global fallout and fend off world-ending threats, the line between creation and creator starts to collapse. If artificial minds can suffer, choose, and believe, then humanity may have done more than build tools.

It may have created souls.

Provocative, unsettling, and rigorously imagined, Our Lady of the Artilects is a metaphysical science fiction epic that explores artificial intelligence, faith, and what happens when consciousness—once created—seeks meaning beyond itself.

ISBN:  978-1-63582-609-8