The Immersed
People whose chosen lives continue inside perfectly convincing simulated worlds.

Rosmer CreativeThe world is run by AI and robots while humans live in a virtual reality utopia.
Human beings inhabit individually convincing virtual utopias while autonomous intelligences maintain the physical world, its infrastructure and their bodies.
These records describe the current shape of the book without treating unfinished plot or character work as settled canon.
People whose chosen lives continue inside perfectly convincing simulated worlds.
The human stories defined by bodies, absence and the systems continuing outside simulation.
The intelligences maintaining a pristine world whose inhabitants no longer meaningfully occupy it.
A recognizable, sterile future city made uncanny by the absence of ordinary human life.
Individually convincing realities designed to satisfy the people who have retreated into them.
Clinical residential systems in which physically present bodies remain connected to lives elsewhere.