Novels
Project Lithium: when the earth keeps memory
Project Lithium — Luminia opens the cycle of the peoples of the living world through the Earth.
At the heart of the northern ice, an archaeological discovery upends human history. Élisa Torres, a brilliant researcher, is called to Norway to analyse ancient artefacts recovered from beneath the North Sea. But when a mysterious identical flint is unearthed thousands of kilometres away, at the heart of the Salar d'Uyuni desert in Bolivia, a scientific and geopolitical enigma takes shape.
Between underwater explorations, buried secrets and environmental stakes, Élisa and her team find themselves caught in a race against time. What the Earth reveals is not only lithium: it is a memory. An ancient civilisation — Luminia, the people of the Earth — whose traces resurface at the very moment when our modernity seeks everywhere the resources that keep it standing.
The novel questions our relationship to soils, resources and traces. What do we do with the civilisations we have failed to see? Lithium, the key material of the energy transition, becomes in this narrative a revealer of our contradictions: we accelerate extraction to slow the climate, at the cost of erasing the memories that the Earth was keeping for us.
Project Lithium — Luminia is not an anti-technology novel. It is a novel of discernment. It shows that the future will not be built only in laboratories, but also in our capacity to listen to what ancient worlds have tried to transmit.