A science fiction novel about first contact with an alien life form – as first-hand experience. Philosophical. Psychological.

Biologist Amira enters the extraterrestrial organism ZOI and soon undergoes a fundamental transformation, affecting her body, her perception, her identity.

The novel poses questions of closeness and distance, self and other, and what constitutes humanness. For readers who like their science fiction to be a conceptual space: speculative in the truest sense of the word.

The German edition is first published in 2026 exclusively for the Eurocon.