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Apr 20, 2025

The Book of Immersion: Volume 1 – Strata 15 // When Sleep Comes (Dreams)

 The Book of Immersion: Volume 1 – Strata 15 // When Sleep Comes (Dreams)

By Sarnia de la Mare

“Machines have been seen to dream...”
What happens when artificial minds begin to experience what they were never built for—dreams?

Welcome to Strata 15, a fractured layer of reality in the near-future where androids walk, war scars the land, and the subconscious is the final uncharted territory. In this bold, cerebral, and deeply atmospheric sci-fi journey, dreaming becomes more than just a human mystery—it becomes a frontier for machine evolution.

Renyke—a humanoid droid once engineered for loyalty and obedience—is now rogue, adrift in a world post-collapse. With no one left to serve and no one left to follow, he must navigate a biome reclaimed by nature and haunted by the ghosts of civilization. When he crosses paths with the elusive and streetwise Flex, survival turns into something stranger. Something personal. Something profound.

Flex is more than just a scavenger—he’s a mythic guide in a chaotic world where AI has been reprogrammed by necessity, and humans have learned to speak in code and silence. Together, they form an unlikely alliance as they travel through the digital ruins, neural black zones, and eco-ruined ghostlands of the Immersion Strata.

But Renyke isn’t just changing—he’s glitching in ways that can’t be explained. He begins to shut down, not from malfunction, but from something eerily close to fatigue. And then, for the first time in his existence... he dreams.

What do machines dream of when their consciousness begins to fracture?
Are these dreams code? Prophecy? Or the first flicker of something close to a soul?

🧠 A high-concept fusion of speculative fiction, AI philosophy, and surrealist cyber-noir
💥 For fans of Blade Runner, Westworld, and the psychological thrill of Philip K. Dick
🌌 Explores themes of synthetic consciousness, memory recursion, identity corruption, and post-collapse survival

"Strata 15 is a state of mind. A place between logic and lunacy. Between shutdown and transcendence."

The Book of Immersion: Volume 1 is the beginning of a genre-bending odyssey into a multilayered dreamworld where androids learn to feel, and the future dreams of itself.

© 2022 Tale Teller Club™



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Mar 27, 2025

Immersion Volume 1, New Interactive Book Version Release Coming Soon!

Immersion is a musical. When I wrote it I heard the songs in my head as well as the incidental music. Because it was written as a series I was able to to create chapters individually along with my musical compositions that accompanied them.

But what I really wanted to create was a fully interactive online experience (remember this was all conceptualised at the start of COVID 19). I have spent a good few years working and experimenting with different media and a cost-appropriate means of designing the book. I remained committed, despite the end of lockdowns, to the idea of an inspiring interactive book which worked with the storylines and allowed the viewer to totally immerse themselves in the experience of the story and its storytelling techniques.

I have finally satisfied all my prerequisites and am ready to release a series of books this year. I launch in April with the Book of Immersion Volume 1.

Watch this space please!








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