The Left Path
14 hrs. 9 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Viktor Pelevin
Author
Viktor Pelevin
Narrator
Maxim Sukhanov
Narrator
Andrey Smolyakov
Description
Boutique “The Left Path” is a division of the corporation “TRANSHUMANISM INC.” where canned detective Marcus Zorgenfrey serves. The boutique offers black-magic trips for the richest clients. The service isn’t advertised because of potential reputational costs—what politician or banker would want to admit that in a simulation he is speaking with demons?
Investigating the mysterious disappearances of clients must be done in secret. The corporation sends Marcus on an alchemical trip simulation with the maximum risk factor—he becomes a 16th-century Italian black magician, gains magical powers with the help of a magical grimoire, and gets drawn into a struggle against powerful Venetian magi.
Soon it becomes clear that not only his life, but his soul is in danger. But Marcus is already on the trail—and his boss, Admiral-Bishop Lomas, decides to continue the investigation.
Can you destroy a soul in a simulation while keeping it in reality, and what counts as reality for a soul? What will the religion of the future be, and can AI create it? Is a simulation of salvation possible, and how does it differ from real salvation? Where to look for God—and should you do that at all?
Marcus Zorgenfrey is once again hurled into the abyss, risking his life so that the reader will receive a literarily flawless and captivating answer to these ominous questions right under the cozy shelter of his own roof.
Investigating the mysterious disappearances of clients must be done in secret. The corporation sends Marcus on an alchemical trip simulation with the maximum risk factor—he becomes a 16th-century Italian black magician, gains magical powers with the help of a magical grimoire, and gets drawn into a struggle against powerful Venetian magi.
Soon it becomes clear that not only his life, but his soul is in danger. But Marcus is already on the trail—and his boss, Admiral-Bishop Lomas, decides to continue the investigation.
Can you destroy a soul in a simulation while keeping it in reality, and what counts as reality for a soul? What will the religion of the future be, and can AI create it? Is a simulation of salvation possible, and how does it differ from real salvation? Where to look for God—and should you do that at all?
Marcus Zorgenfrey is once again hurled into the abyss, risking his life so that the reader will receive a literarily flawless and captivating answer to these ominous questions right under the cozy shelter of his own roof.
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