Stephen a Berard

Praecursus Stephen a Berard

In Praecursus: Fabula Neophysiologica (Foretrekker: A Neophysiological Tale), the reader comes to a greater understanding of how the diffuse compositional style of Capti is actually describing a first impression of an extremely holistic world view in which absolutely everyone and everything is directly connected to everyone and everything else...as well as how personality and individual identity can be viewed as somewhat arbitrary and even artificial constructs. The central character is Tog, a praecursor engaged by a race of benevolent artificial super-beings to explore the possibilities of biological entities operating in the next higher dimensional level of existence in which there are four degrees of physical freedom and time is experienced in the fifth dimension. As Tog navigates through different stories and worlds - at times living fused with a hive-minded entity and existing now as a hologram, now as a computer subroutine - he learns to ride the waves of quantum flux...and eventually even to control them to a large extent.