{"product_id":"the-vacuum-we-return-to-tsung-long-wu-9798235056640","title":"The Vacuum We Return To","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Nevada desert there is a hole that light falls into and never leaves - a perfect hemisphere of absolute nothing, its edge turned as clean as if by a lathe the size of a mountain. The government offers no explanation. The sagebrush grows right up to its lip and stops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHope Valentine has spent sixteen years learning to listen to fire the way other men learn to fight it. Then, on a burning night at the Wilmington refinery, he watches a fire run backward - smoke folding into flame, ash returning to wood - and he cannot un-know what he saw. A thousand miles away, neuroscientist Sophy has given six years to a machine built to hear the faintest whisper a thinking brain makes, and to one impossible subject: the eleventh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat connects them is the thing in the desert, and the bargain it seems to offer - that the arrow of time is not a law but a choice, and that what runs forward might be made to run back. But every crossing has a cost. The question was never whether the past can be rewritten. It is which version of a life, a marriage, a self you would choose to return to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE VACUUM WE RETURN TO is a hard science-fiction novel about entropy, love, and the geometry of an irreversible life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tsung-Long Wu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235056640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tsung-Long Wu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Tsung-Long Wu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001950183679,"sku":"9798235056640","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-vacuum-we-return-to-tsung-long-wu-9798235056640","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}