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conversations.value: a plot for a book about Kalpa, Chaos, Typhon entitled City at the End of Time
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conversations.value: City at the End of Time: City at the End of Time is about the Kalpa, the last city on Earth, one hundred trillion years in the future.\nThe novel\'s backstory describes how the aging universe continued expanding and its spacetime fabric weakened.\nWith the galaxies burnt out, humanity dispersed across the cosmos, where they encountered the Typhon, an inexplicable entity that was destroying the decaying universe.\nIt consumed matter and replaced space-time with emptiness and inconsistencies beyond the laws of physics.\nThe resulting Chaos spread rapidly, driving some humans back to ancient Earth with its rekindled sun.\nIn an attempt to fend off the approaching Typhon, leaders of the dying Earth sent for Polybiblios, a human living with the Shen, an ancient alien race.\nPolybiblios returned to Earth with his adopted daughter, Ishanaxade, a being he had constructed from "fate-logs" of intelligent species collected by the Shen.\nAfter the Shen system fell, and the Chaos surrounded Earth, its leaders instructed everybody to convert themselves from primordial (real) matter to noötic (virtual) mass.\nAs each city fell, its inhabitants retreated to the last remaining cities, the Kalpa and Nataraja.\nUsing knowledge he had gleaned from the Shen, Polybiblios built reality generators to protect the Kalpa.\nNataraja, which had rebelled against the instruction to convert to noötic matter, was left to fend for itself.\nThe novel alternates between the Kalpa and present-day Seattle, where three drifters, Ginny, Jack and Daniel are in possession of sum-runners, small stone-like talismans that give them "fate-shifting" abilities, whereby they can jump between fate-lines (world lines in a multiverse).\nGinny and Jack also have disturbing dreams of the Kalpa, and are inexplicably connected to Jebrassy and Taidba, two "breeds" living in the future city.\nFate-shifters and their sum-runners are hunted by "collectors" working for the Chalk Princess, an entity controlled by the Typhon from the future.\nThese hunters place adverts in local newspapers inviting "dreamers" to contact them for "help".\nIn the future, the Typhon is destroying history and world-lines are being broken, merging the past and the present.\nWith the Chaos closing in on the Kalpa, the inhabitants (all noötic) are unable to venture outside the city walls.\nUnder Ishanaxade\'s instructions, they create "breeds", copies of ancient humans, using primordial matter.\nThey send them in groups into the Chaos to find out if Nataraja still stands, but none return.\nIshanaxade herself ventures out, but is not heard from again.\nAs the Typhon starts breaching the Kalpa, the last batch of breeds, including Jebrassy and Taidba, leave the city in search of help.\nArmed with portable reality generators, they slowly progress through the unreal landscape in search of the rebel city.\nMeanwhile, the Chaos has reached all the way back to the present-day, and an event called the Terminus hits Seattle: the past, present and future collide and world-lines are severed.\nGinny, Jack and Daniel, having evaded the hunters, trek across a degenerating Seattle.\nProtected by their sum-runners, they are drawn to Nataraja, where Ishanaxade is waiting.\nWhile still in the Kalpa, Ishanaxade had instructed Polybiblios to create the sum-runners containing "fragmented Babels", and in the Chaos she had sent them back to the "beginning of time".\nThe sum-runners were programmed to lead the bearers to Ishanaxade when the expected Terminus occurred.\nThe breeds, programmed to see Ishanaxade as their "mother", are also drawn to Nataraja, and Jebrassy and Taidba find their counterparts Jack and Ginny in the ruined city.\nThe Kalpa falls to the Chaos, but in Nataraja, the sum-runners and their Babel fragments are united and history is recreated, causing the Typhon, now a failed god, to implode.