In Toward Eternity Hur takes us on a journey where AI and nanobots take humanity through the next stage of evolution it’s at once personal and eon spanning. A philosophical and poetic look at the next phase of human evolution.

A world where reality exists balanced between instantiation and rapture, a passage travelled between the experience of existance an the act of recognition of it and of the difference between the act of creation and that of interpretation.

There is something of the Ship of Theseus paradox and something of the first words of the bible in the beginning was the word. But there is something beyond words, the taste of the ideas swirling around that this book left me with.

As one of the characters tells us about his favourite poem Rosetti’s Winter:My Secret. The secret is the thing preceeding the poem, it’s anticipation, the performance of the poem as part of the secret the part that brings it to life. ★★★★★ 📚