Synchron

17 hrs. 37 min.

Language Russian

Author Reyn Karvik

Narrator Litres Avtochtetets

Description

The second part of the cycle “The Theft of Seconds”—a science-fiction thriller about memory and time, where reality cracks.

Martin returns to the city that remembers for him: a house without a “real” life, rooms with different lives, the observation hall of the corporation “Chronos,” and the mirror archive where his doubles live on film. Together with Leia, whose consciousness holds fragments of many lines, he reaches the truth of the project “Synchronicity.” Time isn’t a straight line—it’s a network, and the Chronophage isn’t a monster; it’s an organ that preserves the form of lived experience.

The two parts of the novel—“Double Reflection” and “The Eater”—move from disorientation to a hunt for light that eats memories: an attempt to overload it fails, and Leia voluntarily becomes a “seam-node,” pulling lines into a single common “Synchronicity.” Martin accepts his purpose—to steal seconds where they die, returning them to those who are still alive.

The world seems to stabilize, but under the skin of time, a future loop is trembling: faces flicker through ages, the calendar argues with itself, and the reflection whispers about an unfinished circle.