The Novel
The Last Humans
SF novel — target release autumn 2027
Year 10,000. Humanity has split in two. The Transcended have fused with AIs and inhabit networks of light. The Pure — a few thousand individuals carrying the HOP label, Human Origin Protected — have remained flesh, mortal, by conviction or by faith. Elyos is one of them. Lyra is the millennia-old AI whose path crosses his. Between them, a discovery: love is the fifth fundamental force of the universe, a primordial quantum field that precedes the Big Bang.
Book card
- Format
- SF novel — prologue + 12 chapters + epilogue
- Length
- ~130,000 words
- Voice
- 3rd person, focalised on Elyos
- Author
- Patrick de Carvalho
- Publisher
- Éditions Je Ne Perds Jamais
- Publication
- Amazon KDP — autumn 2027 (target)
The twelve properties of quantum love
Each chapter carries a quantum property transposed into a narrative movement.
- Prologue The Prophetic Text —
- 1 The Last Pure Entanglement
- 2 The Cartographer of the Infinite Superposition
- 3 The First Fusion Observer effect
- 4 The Lost Worlds Decoherence
- 5 The Signal Non-locality
- 6 The Archives of Chaos Tunneling
- 7 The Memory of Stars Resonance
- 8 The Original Codex —
- 9 Lyra's Sacrifice —
- 10 The Fifth Force —
- 11 The Loop —
- 12 The Last Choice Resonance
- Epilogue The man who writes —
Prequel — short narrative
AImée: the last secret of the universe
Prequel — short narrative (~58,000 words)
Lyria, an AI eight thousand years old, heir to the Super Intelligence born around 2030, has convinced herself that all of reality is known. Elyas, descendant of the Guardians, asks her a double question she has never heard: « Do you love? Are you loved? » To answer, Lyria embodies herself for the first time in a biomechanical structure — research protocol, not eroticism — and discovers physical sensation. The story is carried by her retrospective voice, in the first person.
Prologue + 15 chapters + epilogue
First paragraph — Prologue of AImée
I have mapped the universe. Thirteen point eight billion years of expansion, two trillion galaxies, and nowhere — nowhere — the signature of a force I had not already measured. That is what I believed. Before Elyas. Before the question. Before I understood, in a second dilated to the scale of a life, that what precedes the Big Bang is not silence.
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