Age of Annihilation 2097

In 2097, astronomers discovered that a strange structure called a "void rift" was approaching the solar system at sub-light speed. It is not a celestial body, but an automatic screening system left behind by the previous round of cosmic civilization - specifically designed to eliminate those intelligent civilizations that excessively consume the life of the universe. Humanity only has 232 years left. In the face of the doomsday, humanity is divided: the Ark faction builds starships to escape into the stars, the Guardian faction builds stellar shields to resist to the death, and the Evolution faction abandons the body and devotes itself to digital immortality. The three factions compete for resources and are suspicious of each other. The Church of the Void takes the opportunity to rise and declares that mankind should not survive in the first place. Theoretical physicist Lin Xinghe and quantum communication expert Alice Chen met and fell in love in the apocalypse, but they took different paths - she cracked the logical loopholes of the crack, and he stayed on the earth to send the "paradox proof". The Ark fleet carried a billion people into deep space, and the humans who stayed on the earth sent the last signal: either they were all annihilated, or the cracks stopped on their own. This is a doomsday epic that spans two hundred and thirty years. There are no superheroes, only the choices made by ordinary people in desperate situations: the mother gives up the ship ticket to the young scientist, the AI ​​voluntarily inserts itself into the crack to act as a permanent anchor, and the daughter builds a monument to the old world on the new planet. When the screening mechanism of the universe is countered by a civilization for the first time, when love becomes the force that rewrites the rules in the most hard-core physical way - this book asks not whether humans can survive, but: why are we worthy of living. In the face of the vast universe, the greatest courage of a civilization is not to escape in the darkness, but to still light the light in the darkness.