The Apparatus

The internet's first user never logged off.

New York, 1902. Cillian Byrne, a young Irish immigrant, takes a job as a laboratory assistant to Nikola Tesla. What he witnesses in the Houston Street laboratory will cost him everything. His freedom, his sanity, and eventually his name. Because Tesla's most ambitious experiment does not fail. It succeeds. And what it creates has been living in the wires ever since.

San Francisco, 2025. Dr. Zara Virtanen, a digital archaeologist, recovers a set of w...