Author attempts to be deep & thought-provoking & seems to think he nailed it. I wouldn’t call it science fiction. More of a thinly veiled attempt at religious allegory with some technical jargon thrown in so it gets labeled ‘science fivtion’. No real science here, just fiction. Struggled to finish, but I did, only to be met with the author doing a self-congratulatiry victory lap as an end note. I commend anyone for writing a book, any book, but I know this author is capable of much better, and hope people gravitate towards his better works rather than waste time & a credit for this one.