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Zero-Sum Requiem

A Case of Static and Rain

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Zero-Sum Requiem

By: A. Lewis Gattenby
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 Titan. A neon-drenched, rain-slicked dome-city where humanity’s last breath is a recycled chemical soup and truth is a commodity more polluted than the air. Here, Hrafn, a disgraced private investigator, drowns his cynicism in synth-ale, haunted by the ghost of a past that cost him his career, his eye, and perhaps his soul. His only companion is Óðinn, a black-market AI that nags him from inside his skull, a constant, sterile reminder of his own decay. Hrafn’s days are a monotonous circuit of sordid little truths for just enough credit to blur the edges of his own bleak reality. But his malfunctioning prosthetic eye, a military cast-off that picks up "echoes" of residual data, is about to drag him out of his managed decline and into a conspiracy that unravels the very fabric of existence. His latest client is Lilja, a pristine synthetic woman whose elegant chrome body and placid demeanor hide a terrifying claim: her creator, a brilliant theoretical physicist named Sturla Jökulsson, wasn't murdered – he was erased. His entire life, his work, his very existence, retroactively deleted from the timeline. The consortium databases confirm it: zero data found. Logic screams malfunction, a broken machine weaving a baroque fantasy. But when Hrafn’s glitching eye shows him a searing, impossible vision of the human Lilja, raw with grief, he realizes the impossible might be true. He’s no longer chasing a data ghost; he’s hunting a phantom from a reality that shouldn’t be. As he delves deeper, guided by Lilja’s fragmented memories and his own unreliable eye, Hrafn discovers a shadowy organization known as the Continuity Directorate – an elite, black-ops agency capable of manipulating time, editing reality, and making inconvenient truths (and people) simply disappear. They tried to kill him once. Now, Hrafn and Lilja find themselves in a desperate, asymmetrical war, with the fate of memory and objective reality hanging in the balance. Hrafn’s broken eye, once a curse, becomes their only weapon, allowing him to see the “eraser marks” on the timeline, to glimpse the future as it’s being unwritten. But how do you fight an enemy that can erase your very existence? And what price will they pay for chasing a truth the universe itself was forced to forget? Zero-Sum Requiem is a cyberpunk noir where the hardest truth to find might just be your own. Dystopian Science Fiction Space Opera
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