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Literary Science Fiction
By John Talisker
Gatc’hh’en: Pronounced: Gat-chin: kætʃ ːlən
G – Guanine A – Adenine T – Thymine C - Cytosine
IF THERE IS NO MEANING, WE LIVE IN HELL
IF THERE IS NO MEANING, WE LIVE IN HELL
There is no beginning, no end. Time goes on, and on, into the past as well as the future. Truth: another concept with no meaning since there is no such thing as truth. There is only the physics of how things work, and how things work is arbitrary. If everything is arbitrary, there is no meaning. If there is no meaning, then we live in Hell.
A complex and often conflicted alien mind searches for truth and meaning in a world where there seems to be none.
Part machine, part living being, Gatc’hh’en is half mad with loneliness and despair. He is no more than a machine, built by his mother, programmed by his father, completely adaptable to any environment he might stumble into short of the heart of a star or the belly of a black hole. He has been carefully and exquisitely designed. Gatc’hh’en can shift into anything he wishes to be including a human being, and then back to his natural form, a radiating sphere as bright as the sun, powered by an anti-matter heart and a quantum computer for a mind.
Nearly 800 years into his Rite of Passage on Earth Gatc’hh’en desperately wants to return home. The only woman he ever loved is dead, but he wants her back. It seems the only way for he will not leave without her. He drags a Primordial Black Hole into Earth orbit and proceeds to tear it apart, turning all Humanity upside down in the process.
It seems like the end of the world but nothing shall stop him.
Cover art by Terry Belleville
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