Status Updates From Our Lady of the Artilects

I found a used physical copy of this book in a bookstore, and picked it up immediately.

The Fatima prophecies! A secret society that has been guiding the process of creating the next humanity! Cyberware as the vehicle for human/android synthesis! The threat of a new war between ACTUALLY God and Satan for the new souls!
This book.

It is so refreshing that the story so far develops in Nigeria, with a few scenes in the Vatican and Vienna for the token western locations.

A PROPHESIED APOCALYPSE (in both the popular and Greek sense of the word) GOING BACK TO FATIMA HELD IN SECRET DOCUMENTS INSIDE THE VATICAN NOW BEING FULFILLED IN THE SYNTHETIC POPULATION!

This novel was made for me.

“One more thing, Father, before you retire,” the [possessed] synth called after him. “If this is real – if your species has done what we suspect – consider what His response might be,” said the synth looking up at the high altar. “It would make our rebellion almost trivial by comparison.”

A couple of chapters in and we have a reborn Holy Roman Empire in a future Earth with ultra-fast vacuum travel pods, synthetic humanoids/synths/androids aka artilects, an exorcist who is also an expert on AIs, and an artilect legitimately possessed by a demon because "Hell" is super intrigued by these artificial humans.

YES! I'm so in.

Needed something on e-book while on the boat.

Starting this book for the third time. Hopefully I actually stick with it.

the surest way to lighten one’s own
burdens was to help another with theirs

The problem with prophecy is whenever we
go to its tomb, the stone is rolled away and we find it empty.”