The Book of Immersion Volume II continues Sarnia de la Mare's visionary chronicle of the Anthropogenic-Digital world - a trans-media epic spanning literature, art, sound, and moving image.
In Strata 21-31, the Accord's fragile balance begins to fail. Machines mimic desire; androids inherit emotion; the Cadre women attempt to fuse logic and soul. Each Strata stands as a fragment - an encoded record of human ambition, vanity, rebellion, and transcendence.
Themes of control, faith, and affect run through every page:
Dolls (And Vanities) explores beauty and replication.
Genetic Propagation (The Selfish Gene) dissects survival through code.
The Emulsifier Problem exposes the fatal flaw in human-machine fusion.
At the edge of all this - the NeuralVault hums, the Dinfants awaken, and emotion itself becomes a parasite in a perfect system.
This volume also includes:
The Immersion Glossary - complete linguistic archive of the Anthropogenic-Digital world.
Supplemental Strata files - diagrams, diagnostics, and cultural fragments from within the narrative system.
Whether read as philosophical fiction, speculative mythology, or documentation of a future civilisation, The Book of Immersion Volume II expands the scope of De la Mare's evolving digital universe - a fusion of art, code, and poetic consciousness.Immersion strata, anthropogenic digital, hybrid AI consciousness, Cadre women, dystopian art fiction, philosophical sci-fi, machine emotion, transmedia novel, iServalan, Sarnia de la Mare, AI and soul, speculative mythology, avant-garde literature
"Immersion was never written as a book alone; it's a system - an evolving organism of text, sound, and image. Each Strata is an experiment in how emotion behaves inside data."
- Sarnia de la Mar , FRSA