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After rebuilding his life in southern Ontario, Brazilian physicist Charles Alves joins a Canadian dark-matter project buried deep beneath the earth. What begins as a return to science soon becomes something far more dangerous.
The detector was built to measure rare events in matter. Instead, Charles begins to suspect that under certain conditions it does something else: it alters which recent histories remain materially real.
At first, the changes arrive quietly. A school placement improves. A diagnosis softens. A loss fails to occur. Each correction appears in plausible clothes, carried by ordinary systems and ordinary voices. But the benefits come at a cost—memory drift, bodily strain, and fractures in the shared record of family life.
As the discovery draws institutional scrutiny and strategic interest, Charles finds himself trapped between scientific ambition, state attention, and the moral catastrophe of using an instrument that can no longer be called neutral.
Set between Welland, Toronto, and the buried architecture of a Canadian research mine, The Silence of Matter is a literary hard sci-fi novel about dark matter, memory, migration, and the price of deciding what remains real.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. After rebuilding his life in southern Ontario, Brazilian physicist Charles Alves joins a Canadian dark-matter project buried deep beneath the earth. What begins as a return to science soon becomes something far more dangerous.The detector was built to measure rare events in matter. Instead, Charles begins to suspect that under certain conditions it does something else: it alters which recent histories remain materially real.At first, the changes arrive quietly. A school placement improves. A diagnosis softens. A loss fails to occur. Each correction appears in plausible clothes, carried by ordinary systems and ordinary voices. But the benefits come at a cost-memory drift, bodily strain, and fractures in the shared record of family life.As the discovery draws institutional scrutiny and strategic interest, Charles finds himself trapped between scientific ambition, state attention, and the moral catastrophe of using an instrument that can no longer be called neutral.Set between Welland, Toronto, and the buried architecture of a Canadian research mine, The Silence of Matter is a literary hard sci-fi novel about dark matter, memory, migration, and the price of deciding what remains real. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798255685455
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. After rebuilding his life in southern Ontario, Brazilian physicist Charles Alves joins a Canadian dark-matter project buried deep beneath the earth. What begins as a return to science soon becomes something far more dangerous.The detector was built to measure rare events in matter. Instead, Charles begins to suspect that under certain conditions it does something else: it alters which recent histories remain materially real.At first, the changes arrive quietly. A school placement improves. A diagnosis softens. A loss fails to occur. Each correction appears in plausible clothes, carried by ordinary systems and ordinary voices. But the benefits come at a cost-memory drift, bodily strain, and fractures in the shared record of family life.As the discovery draws institutional scrutiny and strategic interest, Charles finds himself trapped between scientific ambition, state attention, and the moral catastrophe of using an instrument that can no longer be called neutral.Set between Welland, Toronto, and the buried architecture of a Canadian research mine, The Silence of Matter is a literary hard sci-fi novel about dark matter, memory, migration, and the price of deciding what remains real. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798255685455
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