Proof of a Human

A book series in the spirit of “Black Mirror”, where the whole season flies by in one breath.

“Proof of a Person” is a new book by Arseniy Gonchukov, director and screenwriter, writer, showrunner. A novel in novellas, where seventeen studies from the future unfold like fragments of a mirror turned toward tomorrow.

Artificial intelligence lives and thrives. People are digitized and have become immortal. But when a new type of human appears on Earth, biological people have to rewrite ethics and renegotiate everything—with digital people first, and then with the all-powerful Digit itself. A person has defeated death, but has he gained peace and happiness?

"The time of action is a thousand years after us, but the nature of people—sometimes not quite living—remains the way it was a thousand years before us. Nature can’t be remade by any technological inventions. The fantastic in ‘Proof of a Person’ is believable. Staggeringly believable". ROMAN SENCHIN

"In the imagined (foreseen?) world invented by Gonchukov, AI becomes autonomous from human will, gains subjectivity and independent consciousness. Arseniy is a film director, and the book turned out very cinematic, visual, tangible. Each novella feels like a vivid short film". DMITRY DANILOV

"We all imagine digitized corpses as harmless beings, a kind of photo frame with which you can chat when you want, and if you don’t need that, say: ‘Alice, enough!’ But the photo frame has life, love, fate. It doesn’t want to be told ‘Enough!’ Cyber-zombie apocalypse! And yet it’s neither zombies nor apocalypse!" ALEKSEY SALNIKOV