The Measurements of Decay

In the far future Earths nearby star systems have been colonized. Outfitted with a device that allows them to escape into hallucinations at will people spend most of their time withdrawn into their own minds. Tikan Solstafir a renegade who refuses the illusory life enjoyed by others lives in self-imposed exile on a starship. When a mysterious enemy attacks the ship Tikan embarks on a mission to destroy the galactic tyranny and liberate humanity from its own dreams.Meanwhile in the 21st Century a disillusioned philosopher believes that humanitys collective misery originates in peoples failure to communicate with others and make sense of the world. Growing increasingly misanthropic and monomaniacal he proceeds on a hermetic quest to save humanity from itself while also succumbing to his own moral decline. As these stories intertwine a young girl reappears through various epochs fleeting through Ancient Greece Medieval Norway Bolshevik Russia among others. Unbound by time Sielle has formed few attachments. Eventually thrust into Tikans world she becomes unwillingly entangled in a political scheme spanning centuries.An engrossing and multi-layered science fiction epic The Measurements of Decay is K. K. Edins stunning debut. At once a tortured love letter to philosophy and a space opera spanning centuries it is a novel of ideas wrapped in a cautionary tale.