Rebooting Civilization: From Tribal Totems to the Interstellar Age

Transmigrated as the weakest prophet, he was publicly flogged and called a good-for-nothing. Then he used the principle of the lever to force barbarian strongmen to their knees, refined divine weapons with chemical formulas, and invoked miracles with mathematical theorems. When the emperor of an anti-intellectual empire merged six divine aspects and descended as a false god, he needed only one sentence to shatter the emperor’s faith: “Isn’t the power you use to destroy knowledge itself a form of knowledge?”