Hey r/scifi,
20 years in tech. One question I couldn't shake:
If you woke up next to an exact copy of yourself, which one of you keeps your name?
The answer became a 4-day hard sci-fi thriller called Fractured Echo. A quantum physicist duplicates every time he sleeps. Day 1: two of him. Day 3: eight. Day 7: 128.
The math itself becomes the antagonist.
Built on real quantum biology, real neuroscience, and Derek Parfit's identity philosophy. The author's note says it plainly: the science is real where it can be, extrapolated where it has to be, and honest about the difference.
For readers of Blake Crouch's Dark Matter, the moral architecture of The Prestige, and the slow precision of Moon.
I understand self-promotion isn't welcomed here. If anyone reads it and thinks the duplication math is sloppy, or the philosophy is half-baked, I genuinely want to know. Better feedback now than in Part Two.
Kindle: FRACTURED ECHO: The Science of Divergence— Venky