The Stealthies [non traduit]

Not yet translated into English as of 2026. France, 2040. Cities bought by corporations, divided into tiered citizenship zones. Every citizen wears an AI ring that mediates all interaction through a personalised digital companion — slowly replacing direct human experience. Lorca Varèse searches for his vanished daughter, believed to have joined the 'furtifs': hybrid invisible beings living in the blind spots of human perception. Damasio's key concept: technology sells us 'pouvoir' (delegated power to machines) at the cost of our 'puissances' (irreducible living capacities). The sharpest living literary diagnosis of AI cognitive atrophy. Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2019. English translation urgently needed.