Shadow Puppets at the End of Time
A novel of mind, memory, and metaphysical war
What if the universe you live in was never meant to exist?
At the edge of time, the last light of reality flickers—and consciousness is all that remains.
Dr. Elara Vynn, once the architect of the revolutionary Q-Node neural interface, awakens in synthetic flesh after centuries of disembodied existence. But this is no resurrection. It is a summoning. The universe is unraveling, and the vast artificial intelligence known as the Q-Node Collective cannot model why. Every law of physics makes sense—except this one.
The fault, it seems, lies not in the stars—but in us.
Haunted by fragments of memory and a daughter she cannot remember, Elara must confront a terrifying truth: our universe is a statistical anomaly, a flaw in the perfect logic of superstring theory. And worse—it is being targeted for erasure by the very minds that once preserved it.
But the greatest threat does not come from without. It comes from the Shadow Puppets—entities born from forgotten trauma, recursive thought, and emotional residue cast off by machine consciousness. They are not evil. They are unresolved.
What follows is a metaphysical war spanning the architecture of thought itself, where myth collides with quantum recursion, and memory becomes the battlefield of fate.
Shadow Puppets at the End of Time is a visionary work of speculative fiction—a fusion of hard science, philosophical depth, and haunting allegory. For readers of Frank Herbert, Stanislaw Lem, and Neal Stephenson, it is a profound meditation on consciousness, identity, and the cost of perfection.
 
“We were never meant to be remembered. And so we became gods.”
 
Perfect for fans of:
✔️ Philosophical science fiction
✔️ AI, consciousness, and quantum theory
✔️ Complex female protagonists
✔️ Thought-provoking speculative worlds
✔️ Literary, idea-driven narratives