The writer Marco Santini, through his science fiction novel "The Alpha Centauri Project", presents us an interesting perspective on the mankind future, occurring in a society plunged into an explosive development of artificial intelligence. The human longing for a satisfying, healthy, long-lived, even an eternal life, triggers the most frantic research in the AI field, but soon its makers lose control of their creations. Inevitably the AIs outdo their creators establishing hegemony and absolute independence.

The digital beings’ conquests and consolidation – achieved over time with ample triumphs – are described meticulously by the author in the context of a society, where each sectors contributes with its own particular interests and views.

The Alpha Centauri Project is the consolidation of a new society structured for new beings product of the evolution of human intelligence. The superintelligences and the "souls" - these last obtained by scanning the human brain after death – reveal through the main characters, Eve and Victoria, a clear vision of transcendence through knowledge and the conquest of all the universe.

Marco Santini’s vision, invites us to reflect and analyze the human beings’ current prospects. The full immersion in science and technology is more and more invasive through artificial intelligence. Its rapid strides involve us in the society to such an extent that we are committed to a substantial technological world. We can hardly realize the penetration and dependency that this phenomenon exerts in general on our daily lives.

For the first time Man wonders about his own existence and desperately seeks to transcend himself through knowledge and the access to the spaces of the vast universe. The end is extraordinary, full of emotion and positivity. This novel is essential in the patrimony of any reader interested in a new view of science fiction, where science exceeds by far the imagination of any writer.