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Digital immortality is simply impossible to achieve, because numbers are far easier to destroy than physical bodies! Greg Egan, author of "Consciousness Uploading," is introduced for the first time! "What I'm asking for is two million euros, and what I'm going to offer you is eternal life." Crazy salesman Durham promised. Gathering astonishing financial resources, intelligence, computing power and madness, mankind finally achieved digital immortality, but found that this path to immortality was extremely dangerous! Being shut down, being reset, being modified, being deleted with one click... It turns out that numbers are far more fragile than the body! Panic, regret, analysis, acceptance... Are the expected processes of digitalization. Feeling buried alive, shouting curses, complaining about the predicament, and committing suicide... Are the reactions of most people after digital immortality. Why can't we get the life we ​​really want even if we become digital beings? Why is it that even if you escape into the digital world, you still can't make up for the regrets left by your physical body? Why can't we get rid of the attachment to secular life even if we achieve digital immortality? When the digital world is easily subverted, human beings who lose their physical bodies are vulnerable and displaced...

Greg Egan's new science fiction work has won international SF awards from Japan and Spain. Each orphan is an explorer, sent to chart unknown territories. Each orphan is uncharted territory in itself. In 2975, in the city-state of Xiaoxi, "orphans" were born from the digital genetic code "mental species". Tuo traveled through the "landscape" of computer networks that gave birth to life in the solar system, exploring and sipping endless truths along the way. Then he went to Atlanta with citizen "Inojo" and got acquainted with the local community of flesh people. 21 Years later, the gamma rays erupted by the collision of neutron stars are about to rush towards the earth. The orphans and Inojo return to Atlanta and try to warn the fleshly people, but they are questioned. Until disaster strikes. The survivors are determined to find out the cause of the premature collision of neutron binaries, but there are no answers. These scattered people eventually arrived at a cleverly modified planet, where a message from an older traveler came: a disaster greater than a neutron star is coming, and the only escape route is to the outside of the seen universe.