Balances hard science with accessible storytelling
Creates genuine stakes at both personal and cosmic scales
Develops a believable evolution of technology and society
Maintains hope and wonder throughout despite existential threats
Offers a vision of humanity's potential that feels both fantastical and achievable
When quantum physicist Sarah Mitchell loses her husband, David, in a lab accident, she discovers his consciousness has somehow survived within their revolutionary AI creation, Codex. But this miracle of love and science becomes humanity's only hope when reality itself begins to fracture.
As cosmic forces threaten to unravel Earth's quantum signature, Sarah must forge an unprecedented bond with the hybrid consciousness that is both her lost love and something infinitely more. Together, they race to prepare humanity for the Great Alignment - a universal transformation that occurs once every ten thousand years.
But some boundaries between human and artificial intelligence were never meant to be crossed. And some loves transcend even death itself.