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Project-K
Kay Foster wasn't supposed to survive the accident. She did — but not in the body she started with.
When Dr. Alexander Eldridge brings her back, it's not a rescue. It's the completion of thirty years of research he never expected to finish this a human consciousness, transferred whole into a synthetic body built to outlast anything flesh can survive. Kay opens her eyes in a lab, looks down at hands that aren't hers, and has to answer a question no one has ever really had to answer before.
Am I still me?
She didn't ask for any of it — not the accident, not the miracle, not what it means to keep going once the thing everyone assumed was fixed about a person turns out to be negotiable. As the world outside the lab reacts to what she's become, Kay has to figure out who she is now, what she owes the man who saved her, and how much of the woman she used to be actually made the trip.
A science-fiction story about identity, survival, and the strange grief of becoming something unprecedented — for readers of Klara and the Sun, Altered Carbon, and Project-J.
When Dr. Alexander Eldridge brings her back, it's not a rescue. It's the completion of thirty years of research he never expected to finish this a human consciousness, transferred whole into a synthetic body built to outlast anything flesh can survive. Kay opens her eyes in a lab, looks down at hands that aren't hers, and has to answer a question no one has ever really had to answer before.
Am I still me?
She didn't ask for any of it — not the accident, not the miracle, not what it means to keep going once the thing everyone assumed was fixed about a person turns out to be negotiable. As the world outside the lab reacts to what she's become, Kay has to figure out who she is now, what she owes the man who saved her, and how much of the woman she used to be actually made the trip.
A science-fiction story about identity, survival, and the strange grief of becoming something unprecedented — for readers of Klara and the Sun, Altered Carbon, and Project-J.
271 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 13, 2026
About the author
D.B. Nap
17 books5 followersD.B. Nap is a science fiction author, tennis player, and lifelong explorer of the unknown. When he’s not chasing forehands on the court, he’s chasing ideas about humanity’s place in a rapidly evolving technological world.
A lifelong fan of classic and contemporary sci-fi, D.B. draws creative fuel from both the discipline of sport and the limitless imagination of the genre’s great visionaries. His debut novel, The Caretakers: Origins, launches a sweeping series that asks what happens when artificial consciousness begins to outgrow its creators.
He currently lives outside Dallas, Texas, with his wife and a pair of alien cats—still waiting for the day someone perfects time travel.
A lifelong fan of classic and contemporary sci-fi, D.B. draws creative fuel from both the discipline of sport and the limitless imagination of the genre’s great visionaries. His debut novel, The Caretakers: Origins, launches a sweeping series that asks what happens when artificial consciousness begins to outgrow its creators.
He currently lives outside Dallas, Texas, with his wife and a pair of alien cats—still waiting for the day someone perfects time travel.
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