Koan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798189138348)

At the end of the universe, one black hole remains.

ANTAM, the last gravitational event in a dark, cold, and starless cosmos. Every memory, every fragment of a life that crossed its threshold is still there, suspended between matter and light.

NOVARK is the station orbiting it: a structure as thin as a line, built from living computational matter and inhabited by drones who filter ANTAM's radiation in order to survive.

PINK is one of the memories trapped inside.

She exists within a single moment, living the same Loop again and again, until she becomes aware of the repetition.

KOAN begins where physics ends.

If light carries information, a black hole may be more than a grave. It may be a cosmic register. And if that register preserves every memory and every fragment of a life, what happens when one of those fragments wakes up?

Where do memories go when the person who lived them is gone?

And can memory survive us?