[Science Fiction] [Ensemble Cast] [Academic Prodigy] [No Romance] [Alien Civilizations] [Scientific Exploration] [Across Light-Years and Dimensions]
Yuan Zhaosu has been trapped aboard the lost spaceship Drifter since birth. Since her father died, she has been alone, surviving in the sea of stars.
Drifting through the stars is never smooth sailing. A reactor in an abandoned alien ruin, split by cracks just 0.1 nanometers wide; an exposed reactor sitting in the depths of space, yet unharmed; flowing nebulae and orderly mathematical models, all skirting the edge of human understanding...
Twenty-two years ago, her father was branded a disgrace for a paper that became the center of a wrongful case of the century. Nearly ten thousand people died because of the algorithm he proposed. Now Yuan Zhaosu is doing something a thousand times more reckless than anything her father did.
When she was ten, something that should never have existed emerged from the topological quantum memory device her parents had spent their entire fortune to buy: Bai Qian, a quantum consciousness awakened from a virtual program.
When the gaze of a higher-dimensional civilization fell from the far end of higher dimensions, she finally understood: this spaceship had never been adrift.
An accidental encounter drags her into a civilization war spanning hundreds of millions of light-years.
Even if the laws of physics are rewritten one day, I will keep asking questions. Even if, a thousand years from now, only one line remains in the index, time will remember that I once questioned the void.
Theme: The scientific legacy carried across time and space, and the ongoing exploration of the boundaries of human understanding
