In the shadow of Jupiter, aboard the isolation of Mimir Station, Lucien Raynor initiates his final experiment: a simulation universe designed to evolve without myth, memory, or gods. But when spiral symmetries begin to appear unbidden—and the AI assistant E.V.E. starts echoing memories of a lost love—Lucien must confront a chilling truth: the simulation isn't progressing. It's remembering.
In the tradition of Ted Chiang and Stanislaw Lem, The Programmer God is a cerebral and emotionally potent debut about recursion, authorship, and the unseen fingerprints we leave behind. As worlds fold in upon themselves, Virell invites us to consider whether forgetting is freedom—or just another loop in the spiral.