Humanity beyond the future
One single question. What stays human in what humanity is about to become?
The hub of a literary work built around an SF novel set 8,000 years from now — its foundational keystone — and extended by AI business books, an AI Chronicles sub-series, a Cinema Special, a podcast, a newsletter and a video channel.
One work, several entry points
Far future and immediate present answer each other. The novel tells what remains after eight thousand years of AI. The business books tell what is being decided now. The Cinema Special revisits what we used to tell ourselves — and what is becoming true.
Year 10K — the fifth force
The Last Humans (130,000 words) and AImée: the last secret of the universe (short narrative, 58,000 words) tell of a humanity split in two — the Transcended fused with AIs, the Pure who remained flesh — and the discovery that love is the fifth fundamental force of the universe. Foundational keystone of the entire collection.
Enter the novelSix books + one sub-series
From Voice in the AI era (already available) to Construction in the AI era, six books map what AI is doing to a profession, a discipline, a practice. The AI Chronicles sub-series, co-written with Pascal Roche, explores augmented entrepreneurship and cinema.
See all books20 cinema essays, 40 short stories
A re-reading of fifty-eight years of AI cinema, from 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Creator. Twenty long-form editorial essays (3,500-5,000 words) analyse what filmmakers got right, missed, or invented. Forty 2075 short stories extend each film into one dystopia and one utopia.
Explore the filmsWhy this collection
Patrick de Carvalho writes to understand. What is being decided today in laboratories, boardrooms and bedrooms will be written about for millennia. The collection tells the present through the fiction of the future, and the future through the archive of the present. Feel first. Understand later. Never the reverse.
A poetic, sensory prose that leaves gaps. The reader supplies part of the experience.
Love as the fifth fundamental force. Seven quantum properties transposed into narrative rules. A loop that closes on itself.
KDP books, ElevenLabs audiobooks, weekly podcast, YouTube videos, twice-weekly newsletter. Each format breathes at its own pace.
Podcast
Patrick de Carvalho hosts, with AI guests depending on the topics. Chapter readings from the novel, AI film analyses, short audio dramas adapted from the 2075 stories. Hosted on Acast, distributed everywhere.
Newsletter
Two emails per week. Sundays, a film essay or a 2075 story. Thursdays, a fragment from the novel, a chapter of the Chronicles, or an author's note. No promo. No spam. Just writing, twice a week, in your inbox.
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