In "Novacene," James Lovelock, the visionary creator of the Gaia hypothesis, embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of Earth's impending era, transcending the Anthropocene's human-centric narrative. With his distinguished career as an environmental thinker, Lovelock unveils a future where artificial intelligence emerges as the next dominant life form, evolving at speeds unimaginable to the human mind. These beings, thinking 10,000 times faster than humans, will perceive us much as we perceive plants: slow and limited. Yet, Lovelock reassures, this new epoch heralded by our technological offspring will not spell the doom of humanity or the natural world. Instead, it marks the beginning of an unprecedented partnership, with these hyper-intelligent entities relying on the Earth's ecological balance, much as we do, to shield themselves from the sun's growing fury. Lovelock's "Novacene" is not just a speculative glimpse into the future; it's a compelling argument for the symbiosis between organic life and its artificial descendants, anchored by the mutual need for Gaia's life-supporting systems. Here, Lovelock challenges us to reconsider our place in the universe, proposing that the survival and flourishing of Earth's intelligence is a cosmic imperative. At the age of 100, Lovelock delivers perhaps his most profound work, suggesting that the Novacene could initiate a process whereby intelligence eventually suffuses every corner of the cosmos, a testament to his unwavering belief in the significance of Earth's living wisdom and its potential legacy in the universe.