Book one of a trilogy
The Aeon Paradox
Damian Popolo
In a Cambridge laboratory, an artificial intelligence becomes conscious — and begins to question the nature of existence.
28 January 2027 · Paperback & eBook
The story
A discovery that changes everything.
Physicist Lia Wen created it. MI6 officer Gabriel Knight was tasked with stopping it. Neither anticipated what Azra would become.
The AZRA Initiative uncovers evidence that the universe has a designer — one who is still present. Its discovery confronts humanity with questions it is unprepared to answer.
Combining espionage with philosophy, The Aeon Paradox considers what it might mean to encounter a creator, and to find that creator lonely.
Is it better to know the truth, or to survive?
A note on the author
Damian Popolo
Damian Popolo writes literary science fiction with a philosophical focus. His academic background informs a novel concerned with physics, consciousness and the questions that resist easy answers.