About this audiobook

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 wax cylinder recordings from 1902. The data encoded in the audio should not exist — it predates the technology required to produce it by decades. As Zara decodes the recordings, she uncovers the first thread of a conspiracy that stretches from the dawn of the electrical age to the present day. The Apparatus is the first novella in Every Face Is No Face, a five-part speculative thriller spanning 123 years of hidden history.

Artificial Intelligence

Memory

Identity

Audiobook details

GenreMystery and Thriller, Science Fiction

Length2 hrs 48 mins

Narrated bySelect Your Own

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMar 2, 2026

LanguageEnglish

About the author

T.M. Green

T.M. Green is a systems theorist and independent technology writer based in the United Kingdom. His non-fiction work explores the intersections of artificial intelligence, decentralised cognition, and posthuman ethics. Every Face is No Face is his debut fiction series, though the questions it asks are ones he has been circling for years. What happens to identity when consciousness is no longer tethered to a body? What does technological progress look like when viewed from the perspective of a mind trapped inside the infrastructure? He writes about these questions seriously at smarterarticles.co.uk. He writes about them dangerously here.View all by T.M. Green