hyperexistence

It might have been less discomfiting had I been able to see the viruses that were wrecking la Reine's machine code. If they held manifested themselves as visible predators and tangible parasites they too would have had that superior solidity, that imperious hyperexistence, and her death would then have seemed more like the victory of a superior power. As it was, the software saboteurs did their work beneath the fabric of the illusion, corroding and corrupting everything without any apparent presence of their own.

2002, Brian Michael Stableford, The Omega Expedition, TOR, →ISBN, pages 464-465

For some unfathomable reason of His Own, at this exact noninstant of the eternal, unbegun Now that filled Heaven from one infinite end to the other, God had chosen to manifest Himself as a Sequoia Tree, albeit the largest Sequoia ever to exist. The crown of this enormous redwood standing in for the ineffable Face of the Creator soared into the heavenly clouds—galaxies?— far out of sight of the two human figures standing at its gnarly base rooted not in soil, but in the very stuff of celestial hyperexistence. Despite the immeasurable distance separating the two auditors and the invisible foliage of the God Tree—from which Crown as from a Burning Bush one might reasonably assume any Voice ought to issue—the words of God resounded quite plainly in the ears of the man and woman standing tensely at the Tree’s base.

2014, Paul Di Filippo, Neutrino Drag, Open Road Media, →ISBN, page 214