Bøker av Madison Scott-Clary

Clade (n) - post-self theory A group of individuals patterned off a single root consciousness, formed through branching expansion of the forking of its constituent members. See also: cladistics, cocladist, up-/down-/cross-tree instance, forking, post-self theory. - The System Central Library EncyclopediaTo split oneself among however many individuals, to let the mind drift and diverge, to feel the world from points of view not your own, and then let those memories crash down into you...well, it inspires a feeling best described as 'heady', to say the least.

"Do you know how old I am, Dr. Brahe? I am 222 years old, a fork of an individual who is...who would be 259 years old. I am no longer the True Name of 2124. Even remembering her feels like remembering an old friend..."The cracks are showing.Someone picked up on the broadcast from the Dreamer Module and as the powers that be rush to organize a meeting between races, Dr. Tycho Brahe is caught up in a whirlwind of activity. And as always, when the drama goes down, there is Codrin Bălan to witness it.When faced with eternity in a new kind of digital world, however, old traumas come to roost, and those who were once powerful are brought to their knees.Growth is colliding with memory, and the cracks are showing.

"I am saying that you trust me - really trust me - and that life in the System is more subtle than I think you know. You let me into your dreams, my dear, and your dreams influence this place as much as, if not more than, your waking mind."No longer bound to the physical, what lengths should one go to in a virtual world to ensure the continuity of one's existence?Secession. Launch. Two separations from two societies, two hundred years apart. And through it all, so many parallels run on so many levels that it can be dizzying just keeping up. The more Ioan and Codrin B¿lan learn, the more it calls into question the motivations of even those they hold most dear.

"All artists search. I search for stories, in this post-self age. What happens when you can no longer call yourself an individual, when you have split your sense of self among several instances? How do you react? Do you withdraw into yourself, become a hermit? Do you expand until you lose all sense of identity? Do you fragment? Do you go about it deliberately, or do you let nature and chance take their course?"With immersive technology at its peak, it''s all too easy to get lost. When RJ loses emself in that virtual world, not only must ey find eir way out, but find all the answers ey can along the way.And, nearly a century on, society still struggles with the ramifications of those answers.Recipient of the 2020 Leo Literary Award.