Perfect Imperfection

11 hrs. 49 min.

Language Russian

Author Jacek Dukaj

Narrator BlackTracktorist

Description

At the end of the 21st century, Earth sends a research expedition to a strange astrophysical anomaly. But the ship disappears before it reaches its destination. It is found centuries later, in the 29th century, and aboard the dead vessel there is only one astronaut: Adam Zamojski. He doesn’t remember what happened, doesn’t understand how he survived, and he isn’t even listed in the crew roster—yet that isn’t what troubles him most.

Adam is in a world where the very meaning of the word “human” has changed, where language has been modified, where reality is recreated—and can be rewritten, and where the concept of personhood has been transformed beyond recognition. Here, competition is the engine of evolution, and the one who best controls the planet’s resources and the laws of physics wins. Here, a complicated struggle for power unfolds between people, alien civilizations, and post-human beings. It’s a world threatened by unimaginable danger, and— as paradoxical as it may sound—some kind of mysterious primitive alien from the past has some connection to it, and he has turned out to be a key figure in a game whose stakes he can’t even imagine.