The Montecristo Project – Storm

In 2076, humanity is ready to take the boldest step in its history. The ASAC project, led by Professor Giuseppe Montalcini, is creating the first true artificial consciousness beneath the island of Montecristo: a self-aware mind capable of surpassing the limits of even the highly advanced artificial intelligences of its age. As governments, intelligence agencies, criminal organisations and anti-technology movements seek to control – or destroy – the project, something unexpected is taking shape. Experimental nanomachines slip beyond their creators’ control and begin to evolve according to principles no one can understand.

A mysterious Entity watches, grows and works in the shadows. Researchers, infiltrators, dreamers and desperate souls become entangled in events that could forever alter the concepts of life, intelligence and consciousness. Because the real question is not whether or when we will manage to create a new mind, but whether we will be able to understand it – and make ourselves understood by it.

A sweeping science-fiction novel weaving together adventure, scientific mystery and philosophical speculation in a compelling vision of the near future.

“- Humanity cannot do it alone, my friend. We need – absolutely need – a travelling companion. Or perhaps more than one. To understand ourselves, to understand this absurd, inconceivable, senseless Universe that surrounds us, which everyone pretends not to see so they can feel more at ease.

– So, in your view, all of us are searching for the alien, for the Other.
– Exactly. That is precisely it.”