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.