Even Animals Are Machines

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>FILE UNDER BAROQUE-PUNK</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>1649 North Sea. The great philosopher René Descartes carries a heavy heart and a target on his back. Sick with pneumonia pursued by powerful enemies he flees by ship to Sweden and a new life. His companion: a sentient android replica of Francine his beloved dead daughter.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>But the ship's captain has other plans. Accusing Descartes of sorcery he tosses the droid overboard plunging Francine into a bizarre afterlife: a machinic graveyard ruled by malignant necromancers. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>There she hacks the dying philosopher's mind glimpsing the birth of A.I. in a timestream parallel to our own.</span></p>