2078 - Protocol Zero
In a city that can correct its own past, the most dangerous thing you can own is a contradiction.
Bucharest, 2078. Nobody sleeps badly anymore. Nobody grieves longer than is useful. For forty years, a system called Mnemosyne has quietly managed what people carry, isolating the memory of a stillbirth, softening the year a marriage ended, lifting the guilt that survives the thing it was attached to. Almost no one was forced. Nineteen million people asked.
A novel about memory as public infrastructure, about the difference between forgetting and being administered, and about the quiet arithmetic by which ordinary people become complicit one reasonable step at a time.
Protocol Zero is a science-fiction novel with no villains and no clean exit and its most frightening idea is not that a machine took our past, but that we asked it to, and were grateful, and would ask again.
For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro, Jennifer Egan and Stanislaw Lem: a book about the last thing we own outright, and how easily we hand it over.
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