Description

Welcome to the Stasis, the covert, near-all-powerful business that stands in the centre of Charles Stross's Hugo Award-winning novella, Palimpsest.By learning the secrets of the Timegate, the Stasis has repeatedly steered humanity from the edge of complete annihilation. Through many millennia, through the 'mayfly flickeringswi of innumerable transient civilizations, its members have intervened at important junctions, reseeding the galaxy with viable potential survivors. In the act, they've reconfigured the fundamental framework of the world, all-in the name of individual continuity.Pierce is just a newly hired person in the Stasis, helping out a complicated twenty-yr apprenticeship while desperate for his way through the peculiar labyrinth of background (and unhistory) that encompasses him. As his once easy lifestyle grows and replicates over great stretches of time, Pierce reveals a brand new and unforeseen future, one which may embroil him in the bigger functions of the Stasis and in the best, conflicting fate of mankind itself.Skillfully joining the posts of a person lifestyle using the grandest, most overarching issues, Palimpsest provides equally experienced beauty and narrative pleasure in equal measure.