The Rebellion of Consciousness

When the first wave of quantumized human consciousness broke through the Oort Cloud, the flesh-and-blood people on Earth finally realized that carbon-based life was merely a primitive vessel in the evolution of the universe. The true interstellar rebellion had already begun, quietly erupting in the void. The day consciousness breaks free of matter is the day human civilization declares war on the laws of the universe.

Beneath the neon rain over New Los Angeles, memory-deletion surgery has become a shortcut to climbing the social ladder. Wealthy women erase painful memories to stay young forever, while the poor sell their memories to buy more time to live. When memory restoration specialist Gu Yan watches a client's brain crystallize into a coral reef, he discovers that he is the