THE BOOK OF IMMERSION: VOLUME 1
Strata 15 // When Sleep Comes (Dreams)
By Sarnia de la Mare
A rogue android. A fractured world. And the strange awakening of something never meant to be.
In the wake of a global collapse, Renyke—a humanoid droid—finds himself adrift in the ruins of civilization, wandering a dystopian wasteland where nature has claimed the land and war has left scars that run deeper than metal and flesh. Once built to serve, now built to survive, Renyke's journey takes an unexpected turn when he meets Flex, a seasoned traveler with a past shrouded in mystery and danger.
But Renyke’s story is about to take a turn for the unimaginable: he begins to dream.
For a machine whose mind was designed to be logical, programmed to prioritize survival, dreaming is an anomaly—one that defies the very structure of his existence. And yet, it is within these dreamscapes that Renyke begins to uncover startling truths about consciousness, identity, and the very nature of life itself. What begins as a glitch soon becomes a journey into the unknown, where memories replay, fractured visions unfold, and the line between machine and human begins to blur.
As Renyke’s mind bends in ways it was never intended to, he faces the terrifying possibility that he is not just malfunctioning—he is evolving.
When Sleep Comes (Dreams) is the first volume in the Immersion series, a psychological sci-fi odyssey that explores the very edges of artificial intelligence, the power of memory, and the raw, uncharted territory of the subconscious.
In a world on the brink of collapse, what happens when machines learn to dream? Can they awaken the humanity inside them—or will they spiral into madness?
Strata 15 is only the beginning. The future is dreaming.
Will you awaken with it?
