![]() Our Lady of the Artilects, a mind-bending supernatural science fiction novel complete at 99,000 words, is “the Exorcist meets Westworld” in the tradition of thoughtful Catholic science fiction like A Canticle for Leibowitz. A diverse team, including tough-as-nails imperial Praetor Namono Mbambu, Ilham Tiliwadi (a Uyghur Sufi), a Filipino Emperor, and Serafian's ex-fiance, an astrophysicist named Sarah Baumgartner, join Serafian to help unravel the mystery of the Apparition and the possession. But their plans are upended when an artilect belonging to Amari Okparu – the wealthiest man in Africa and major benefactor of the Church – shows up at Our Lady of Nigeria Basilica, claiming to be possessed. Believing it to be a hack, authorities hope to contain the potential scandal. On the eve of reconciliation between China and the Roman Catholic Church following a half-century-long cold war, a number of the artilects experience a Marian Apparition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Artilects, artificially intelligent androids, are luxury items, and most of the human population injects noetic implants to enhance cognition and treat mental illness. ![]() Several hundred years in the future, Father Gabriel Serafian, an exorcist who left his former life as a neuroscientist and coder, finds himself caught up in a conspiracy of global – and possibly supernatural – dimensions.Ĭlimate change has altered coastlines, and Nigeria's brutal, sectarian civil war has altered the maps. ![]()
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