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Jun 18, 2025

Newsletter from the desk of the author Sarnia de la Maré

From the Desk of Sarnia de la Maré ✨

Hello dear readers!

I’m thrilled to share what I’ve been working on—and where you can find all my latest books at your fingertips:I’m daily releasing a FREE Kindle chapter, building the story in real time. Expect immersive exploration, new characters, and fresh music to enrich your reading experience.

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A new free chapter each day on Kindle

A full run of daily releases over the coming months

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To stay in the loop: follow me on Amazon and check your inbox for daily chapter alerts!

Thank you for journeying with me through immersive worlds and heartfelt stories. I can’t wait for you to dive into Volume 2—see you in the next Strata!

Warmly,
Sarnia de la Maré
Multi‑genre author, artist & musician

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Strata 1: The Beginning
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Strata 2: The Maybe Line
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Strata 3: Flex and the Robo-Dog
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Strata 10: Dinfant Trouble (Synthetic Love)
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Elderescence: A Manifesto
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Toddle Poddle: Issue 2 – Rat Gang Crew
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From the Desk of Sarnia de la Maré ✨

Hello dear readers!

I’m thrilled to share what I’ve been working on—and where you can find all my latest books at your fingertips:

📘 The Book of Immersion – Volume 1: Strata 1: The Beginning

A dystopian opening introducing Renyke, an android discovering purpose beyond servitude.
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Renyke meets friendship where he least expects it…
➡️ Read now: Strata 2: The Maybe Line

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📙 Strata 3: Flex and the Robo‑Dog

Dive into decision‑making with Renyke and his mechanical companion.
➡️ Read now: Strata 3: Flex and the Robo‑Dog

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📕 Strata 10: Dinfant Trouble (Synthetic Love)

A mid‑series deep dive into artificial emotion and synthetic love.
➡️ Read now: Strata 10: Dinfant Trouble

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🌱 Elderescence: A Manifesto (Elderescence Academy)

Redefining aging as vitality, creativity, and lifelong growth.

➡️ Read now: Elderescence: A Manifesto amazon.com

📒 Toddle Poddle: Issue 2 (Rat Gang Crew)

A fun, heartwarming paperback for little adventurers.

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🌊 Current Project: The Book of Immersion – Volume 2

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The Book of Immersion : Volume 1 Kindle Edition
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In a future where code meets consciousness, one being begins a haunting transformation. Renyke—an AI on the edge of humanity—awakens to emotion, sensory overload, and the fragile beauty of connection. Guided by the enigmatic Flex, their deepening bond explores intimacy and friendship, neurodivergence, and the complex world of feeling through an autistic spectrum lens.

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THE BOOK OF IMMERSION
STRATA 8 — SHABRA (LAWS OF ATTRACTION)
By Sarnia de la Maré

Welcome to Immersion. You have reached Strata 8.

Desire is a glitch in the system—or so Renyke believed. Until he met Shabra.

Fleeing the compound with rogue companion Flex and a loyal robodog, Renyke encounters a woman like no other. Fierce, streetwise, and enigmatic, Shabra offers transport through the dangerous Zoner districts—for a price. But it's not just the deal that's risky. It's what Renyke begins to feel.

Attraction, longing, the pull of something deeper. Human emotions... or something else awakening inside?

As this AI-human fusion experiment spirals further into the unknown, Strata 8 explores the collision between programmed logic and raw, unpredictable passion.

Can a machine learn to love? Or is attraction a human flaw that can't be coded—or cured?

Step deeper into the immersive, multisensory world of The Book of Immersion, where every Strata is a test, every encounter a clue, and every emotion... a potential malfunction.

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The Book of Immersion : Volume 1 Kindle Edition

by Sarnia de la Mare (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

Book 19 of 23: The Book of Immersion

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The Book of Immersion: Volume 1

by Sarnia de la Mare

In a future where code meets consciousness, one being begins a haunting transformation. Renyke—an AI on the edge of humanity—awakens to emotion, sensory overload, and the fragile beauty of connection. Guided by the enigmatic Flex, their deepening bond explores intimacy and friendship, neurodivergence, and the complex world of feeling through an autistic spectrum lens.

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Complete Book All Strata on Kindle

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May 5, 2025

Welcome to Immersion: Notes on Strata 16 #fanpage

Welcome to Immersion: You Have Reached Strata 16

Blog by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA

Strata 16 is a turning point. A descent into deeper humanity, paradoxically set in a world overrun by machines.

This chapter isn’t just about survival—it’s about awakening. It challenges the cold logic of artificial intelligence against the visceral, chaotic, deeply emotional landscape of human experience.

At its core is empathy, that strange and beautiful quality we possess as humans—the ability to feel someone else’s suffering or joy and act from that connection. Renyke, having survived a fevered near-death state, returns not just to consciousness but to a new kind of awareness: one rooted in sensation, emotion, and the strange electricity of being alive without digital mediation.

Flesh Over Code

The philosophical backbone of Strata 16 lies in this question: What makes a human real in a synthetic world?

We’re reminded that AI, no matter how advanced, does not and cannot feel. It calculates. It simulates. But it will never love, not truly. Not like Flex—our rough, bright, fiercely loyal survivor—who cared for Renyke during his most vulnerable state.

Flex’s touch is not data-driven. It’s intimate. When he mops Renyke’s brow, when he laughs with him—there is no algorithm. Only heart.

The narrative holds a mirror up to the present day: as we hand more of our emotional labor to machines, what do we lose of ourselves?

The Beauty of Broken People

Flex shines in this chapter. More than a character, he’s a symbol: of resilience, of lived pain, and of unlikely goodness. Raised in a brutal world, physically imperfect by dystopian standards, and mentally sharper than any machine, he’s the product of trauma and love.

His coat of scraps, stitched from landfill detritus, becomes a metaphor for survival—much like the orphans and rebels who call the Zones home. His story reminds us that the most powerful kind of strength comes not from dominance, but from compassion sharpened by hardship.

Waking the Human Machine

Renyke’s moment of reawakening—his shock at being touched, his giddy, primal joy at feeling pain—echoes with spiritual intensity. It’s as though he has been reborn, raw-nerved and fully human for the first time. His laughter is not programmed; it’s eruptive, contagious, and redemptive.

This is a world where sensing one’s own body is revolutionary. Where laughter is an act of rebellion. Where being human is the most radical identity of all.

Onward to the Fjord

The chapter ends with movement—literal and symbolic. The journey toward water, toward cleansing, becomes a baptism. A rebirth. With Flex as his moral guide, Renyke begins the long walk into a world where he must learn to live without the stabilisers of tech.

“Engage some new senses,” Flex says. And so we do.

As readers, we’re invited to do the same: to shed our interfaces and step barefoot into the damp, unknown cave of self-awareness.

To Be Continued...

Volume 1 of Immersion continues to unfold as a tapestry of resistance, rebirth, and recognition. In Strata 16, we glimpse the humanity worth saving—and the machines that will never understand why.

Join me next week as we follow Renyke and Flex into the tunnels. What lies beyond the fjord? What memories—and monsters—linger in the dark?

If you’d like to discuss the ideas in this chapter or share your own experience of “waking up” in a tech-heavy world, drop a comment or tag me on socials. Let’s keep the story breathing.

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