The Perfect Being
A humanoid creature wakes under a blinding light, unable to stabilize its own face, flesh, voice, clothing, memory, or identity. Every possible self presses against its skin.
A softcover trilogy set inside B.A.I.R.C — the Biotechnological & Artificial Intelligence Research Center. Self-modifying DNA. Creatures with no control over what they become.
“I am the Perfect Being. I can be your ideal match, I can be you, I can be nobody, I can be anybody.”
A humanoid creature wakes under a blinding light, unable to stabilize its own face, flesh, voice, clothing, memory, or identity. Every possible self presses against its skin.
Scientists inside B.A.I.R.C attempt to turn DNA into volatile organic memory. The result is not a computer. It is not an animal. It is a question learning how to suffer.
A white rectangular building sleeps inside a dead mountain. No doors. No windows. Hydrophobic skin. Bloody rain. A man approaches and mistakes apocalypse for revelation.
TAPE_BLUE_SHEMU
“This is Dr. Eliza Kline. If you're hearing this, the DIVA was right. The flatness isn't empty — it's watching.”
We thought we were building machines to study consciousness, but the machines were studying us through the cracks in y—
[Error: transmission continues anyway]
“Run if you want. But the running will just be another part of the confession.”
[Y/N] PROCEED WITH DATA INJECTION? >>> _
“Looking at me might give you a feeling of alternate universes staring you back but not even looking, a glimpse of a glimpse of nothing.”
The Cosmic Loneliness Machine is a softcover trilogy about identity collapse, organic computation, divine hallucination, post-human laboratories, unstable flesh, and the horror of being every possible person at once.