[Interstellar Civilization] [Future World] [Villain Protagonist] [Consciousness Awakening] [Slow Heat] [Wits]
When death becomes history, eternity becomes the longest torture.
Under the protection of the "ring", human beings have achieved iterative immortality. Civilization no longer develops, but falls into a grand silent carnival amidst extreme prosperity.
Observer Aaron is the only soul that feels suffocated in this eternal paradise. At a routine "stellar funeral," he caught a signal that shouldn't have existed.
Is this glimmer of light the life-saving straw of civilization, or the last stone that crushes eternity?
To pursue it may destroy everything.
Ignoring it means sinking forever in perfect nothingness.
Reader comments
An elegy to the eternal, but also a hymn to the short life. It uses a desperate picture of the future to reawaken our thinking on the oldest proposition of "what is living?"
A bit interesting, with a bit of a philosophical feel
An elegy to the eternal, but also a hymn to the short life. It uses a desperate picture of the future to reawaken our thinking on the oldest proposition of "what is living?"
A bit interesting, with a bit of a philosophical feel