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Biopolitical science fiction

The Living Signal

Original title: Sinal Vivo

In 2085, Your Body Is the Last Unmeasured Place

By 2085, most of humanity survives inside a permission economy that measures, connects, and claims to care for every body — and the story begins exactly where that promise breaks, in the blind zones and the bodies official systems can't make legible.

Six sagas · eighteen books

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The story

By 2085, most of humanity survives inside a permission economy that measures, connects, and claims to care for every body — and the story begins where that promise breaks: in the blind zones and the bodies official systems can't make legible. HORIZONTE follows Eva Macedo through the infrastructure of SOMA and the institutional tensions of TouchSkin as a crisis — striking her closest friend, Diana Morais — exposes what the system's care was always built to hide. HORIZONTE opens the connected saga; its v4.0 manuscript master is in post-production while the wider story remains in controlled development.

A biopolitical dystopia about bodies, institutions, and a permission economy. HORIZONTE is the current v4.0 manuscript master and is in post-production; the wider story remains in controlled development.

Why it stands out

Sinal Vivo isn't cyberpunk-as-aesthetic — its dystopia runs on infrastructure, not gadgets: a "permission economy" that keeps bodies alive, connected, and measurable, where the horror is in what official legibility excludes, not in chrome and neon. Tonal reference points include Severance and Black Mirror; these are editorial comparisons, not market validation, buyer interest, or endorsement.

The world

Earth, 2085: an unequal planetary civilization held together by a "permission economy" — infrastructure that keeps people alive, connected, and measurable while promising care. SOMA is its biopolitical infrastructure; TouchSkin is the site of its institutional tensions. HORIZONTE opens the story; its v4.0 manuscript master is in post-production.

Characters

  • Eva MacedoProtagonistHORIZONTE's sensory and moral protagonist: the reader enters 2085 through her body and her gaze as the promise of care breaks around the people she loves.
  • Diana MoraisEva's closest friendHer body makes the system's cost impossible to hide; her situation at the book's end directly opens the next volume, Red Sky.

This profile introduces Eva Macedo, the protagonist of HORIZONTE, and Diana Morais, the friend at the center of the system's human cost. The wider cast will be presented as the series develops.

Scope and formats

Six sagas and eighteen books, presented in discovery order 1 → 2 → 3 → 0 → −1 → −2; the internal chronology runs the other way. HORIZONTE opens the journey. Manuscripts are at different editorial stages and the IP remains in controlled development.

Saga 1

Nexus

Saga 2

Sombra Vermelha

Saga 3

As Caravelas

Saga 0

Pachamama

Saga −1

Redskae Falls

Saga −2

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Who it is for
Readers and viewers interested in infrastructure-driven speculative fiction, institutional power, bodily autonomy, and the social costs of systems that promise care.
Adaptation ideas
The premise and connected-era structure could support screen or audio development. No adaptation package is being offered here; any development or rights discussion requires a separate author decision.
Stage
HORIZONTE v4.0 manuscript master in post-production; wider saga in controlled development
Development materials
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