![]() Time and again, banal evil destroys the world not out of malice, but hegemony, carelessness and greed. ![]() The real damage is done by middle-management, soldiers and real-estate developers. The precise threat shifts with time and the villains are rarely glimpsed. The common antagonist in all eras is a disembodied sense of existential dread. In turn, each protagonist works to preserve the story for future generations, and slowly, the era-spanning threads that bind them are revealed. For each, the tale is a catalyst for survival that provides hope when all else is lost. This is only a fraction of the plot, which is revealed in fragments and across time as the characters encounter Diogenes’ story. ![]() There, she finds solace when she stumbles across a surviving copy of Cloud Cuckoo Land. Among them is Konstantine, a 14-year-old dreamer whose already circumscribed life is further shrunk when a viral outbreak causes an overprotective AI quarantine. Their journey will take centuries none of the first generation born on the ship will live to see humanity’s new home. Finally, in an indeterminate future, a handful of families on the spaceship Argos flee a ruined Earth for a distant planet they hope to colonise. ![]()
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