What’s the greatest sporting event that could possibly exist?
Follow the question far enough and you arrive in the year 2040, when a secretive biotech company with limitless funding clones the 144 most physically gifted athletes in human history — think Bo Jackson, LeBron James, Cristiano Ronaldo — and raises them from birth, with optimal training, diet, and psychological conditioning, to become the greatest mixed martial artists the species can produce. Told through sports-blog deep dives, fake tweets, documentary transcripts, faux journalism, and leaked internal memos, the Alpha Sapien Project curdles in slow motion into an atrocity that everyone agrees is monstrous and nobody can stop watching.
Alpha Sapien is a work of fiction. Every person depicted is either fictional or used fictitiously. The documents are fabrications. Nobody has cloned anyone, yet.