Neurobeast
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Winner of the Kurd Laßwitz Award as Best German Science Fiction novel 2024
2023 Eridanus Verlag, 2025 audiobook by SWR Kultur
"In absolute reality - without dreams - consciousness cannot exist."
The city
Berlin in the year 2100 – There are almost no limits to human creativity; 98 percent of all people, animals and plants are modified. Bio-informaticians and genetic engineers want to decipher the last secrets of life; it is bred, prepared and manipulated.
The Biohacker
Aruke lives high up on the rooftops of Berlin with her community – the Unshakeables. Even if everything seems normal on the outside, there is something very wrong with Aruke's body. Does the cause lie in her childhood, in the completely synthetically produced Amazon? And what does Riva Lux – mysterious mega-celebrity – have to do with it? Aruke feels a very special connection to her. The more Aruke delves into her own past, the more everything she believes in is questioned.
Aiki Mira's language, comprehensive knowledge of the topics Aiki deals with in novel form, the incredibly special characters, simply everything, make Aiki one of the outstanding voices in science fiction. And I see this globally. without the sometimes furtive addition of the qualification "German-language"' -- Gerd Hemke
Neurobiest Bestseller im Otherland Bookshop Berlin !
Dubbed 'biopunk' by Aiki Mira herself, the story picks up threads and allusions, terms and atmospheres from the already convincingly written predecessor NEONGRAU, leaping from a half-submerged, darkened Hamburg to a wildly proliferating and radiant Berlin.
'Neurobiest' delves into new forms of life, the potential ramifications of genetic engineering, and the nature of consciousness. Aiki Mira offers some thrilling and imaginative ideas that give this novel its distinctive appeal."