Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
03.05.2026
Verlag
Via Tolino MediaSeitenzahl
263 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
207 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9783819497506
- Englischsprachige Originalausgabe - In 2030, the world is collapsing. World War III has reached its endgame: nuclear escalation, cities reduced to rubble, the biosphere counting down to silence. One hundred seventeen meters beneath a war-torn city, in the repurposed tunnels of a destroyed particle accelerator, physicist Vera Hertz works alone with the machines. Her brother Emil, a hospital nurse in Geneva, was killed three weeks ago in a basement strike. She has stopped writing in sentences. She writes in timestamps. She presses her thumb against the desk edge until the wood bites back, just to feel something honest. Then the oscilloscope shows her something impossible: a signal arriving from one hundred sixteen years in the future. Eight bytes per packet. Quantum coherence rising where everything else decays. A channel through time, opened by people who no longer exist, reaching backward in search of the only mind on Earth equipped to recognise what they are sending. The signal is collapsing. She has ninety hours. Vera assembles a team inside the dying laboratory. Amir, a Swiss-Iraqi historian who has already mapped his own non-existence. Mila, a Bundeswehr cryptographer who plays a broken piano in the small hours and refuses to be sentimental about mathematics. Together they decode the message, identify the target, and confront the choice someone in 2146 has already made for them. Sarajevo. June 28, 1914. The most fragile branching point in modern history: five failed assassins, a confused driver, a stalled engine, one man standing on the wrong corner. Eight characters, sent backward through a Hughes printing telegraph, could rewrite a century. No World War I. No Versailles. No Holocaust. No World War III. No Vera, no Amir, no Mila, no Emil. But perhaps a different Emil, a doctor in a timeline that never had to learn what radiation tastes like. 8 BYTES OF HOPE is a literary science-fiction novel about retrograde causality, the moral arithmetic of self-erasure, and the strange tenderness of grief with nowhere to go. It is a story about the smallest possible message and the largest possible cost: three people who choose to stop having existed in order to send eight letters to a telegraph operator who preserves a paper strip he never understands, in a drawer no one will unlock for a hundred years. A meditation on quantum information, counterfactual history, war and the dignity of unwitnessed work. For readers of Ted Chiang and Emily St. John Mandel.
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