Why is humanity so compelled to create artificial life in its own image? Perhaps the caterpillar feels something similar as it builds its chrysalis, and for the same reasons.

Metamorphosis And The Messenger takes place in the same world and location as the previous novellas in this series and follows its timeline. It is the story of two university students enrolled in a Master Of Futures Studies program, one of whom has a Bachelor Of Computer Science and the other a Bachelors in Natural History.

Out of concern regarding whether AI will evolve a competitive or cooperative view towards humanity, their extracurricular activities diverge significantly from their daily classes as they seek to find evidence in support of their theory; that the emergence of fully self-aware Companions represents not a new, separate species but rather a new life stage of the same species.

Again, to help with imagining the characters, I have included my own “casting” using well-known actors. The casting is not based on their respective bodies of work or anything to do with their personal lives, but purely on their physical appearance which I found useful during the writing process but subsequently grew attached to.

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— October, 2022

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