Tales from the Beneath II

Thirty years after the original landmark release, Rodrigo Sartori returns to the Tales from the Beneath universe with nine stories that push speculative fiction to its most human—and therefore, its darkest—limits. If the first book explored the depths of the soul, this one dives into what the soul has built: algorithms, systems, artificial intelligences, and technologies that promise to save us but end up reflecting us instead. In Tales from the Beneath II , science and technology collide with faith, desire, and madness in an inevitable confrontation. Each story is an experiment in what remains human when everything becomes programmable. They are haunting tales about consciousness, power, addiction, death, transcendence—and the cost of crossing boundaries that might have been better left closed. With precise writing and cinematic intensity, Sartori reaffirms his place among the most original voices in contemporary Brazilian speculative fiction.