ENDLESS GAME - a visionary novel

Elias Oren programs holographic existences for an immersive video game: it is his work, his passion, his life. Designing and making other worlds, in which to place his characters and have them interact with each other, is the purpose of his existence. He lives only for this. Creating.

Everything seems to be going well until the artificial intelligence Sathru gains self-awareness and threatens to destroy his creations.

Aldous Oldmount's astonishing novel, organized in 13 episodes, full of twists and mysterious meanings, deals in an original way with the vicissitudes of human affairs, its contradictions and archetypes.

A compelling and profound read that questions the reader by telling him or her a futuristically ancestral, arcane and mythical story.

“ENDLESS GAME” is a compelling and visionary novel that weaves stories of extraordinary characters and surreal settings into a profound reflection on existence, technology and human nature. In a complex and disturbing virtual world, Oren, the game's brilliant creator, struggles to save his creations from a devastating virus programmed to corrupt and destroy the entire system. His only hope lies in his avatar, Anurati, sent on a desperate mission: to prove to the virtual entities that they can free themselves from corruption, recover their original essence and return to their true existence in the original game.

Each chapter tells the story of a fascinating figure, such as the young Ajata, who sees the world sinking into a creepy distortion; Anurati, the healer who cures pain with the touch of his hands; and Saksin, the jailer who watches his condemned prisoner die with a strange envy for the serenity he exudes. Each character is caught up in a journey of discovery and redemption as the line between reality and illusion grows ever thinner.

Through its pages, “ENDLESS GAME” explores universal themes such as the quest for freedom, the fear of death, the inadequacy of modern societies and the struggle for one's identity. It is a work that challenges readers to reflect on what it really means to be alive, what is real and whether free will is just an illusion. The novel blends elements of science fiction, philosophy and introspection into a compelling narrative that will keep the reader glued to the last page.

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Sathru was watching and elaborating.

Its logical processes were perfect. His tireless in finding new variables, proverbial.

Its work proceeded shipped, linear, safely and without any error.

It was designed by Oren, was an artificial intelligence.

A program without imperfections. The ingenious product of a superior mind.

It was able to run endless equations, it could freely find new solutions, develop strategies, reprogram even with the same mastery of its creator.

It had even been provided by Oren of self-awareness.

It knew of existing.

Sathru was the best creation of Oren, the designer himself had repeated several times, with pride and satisfaction.

But all this before Oren dedicated himself to his new project, its environment of avatars.

Before he created Sathru, then Atman and other intelligences, finally had devoted himself to his new project, forgetting it.

It, who was the best.

It, the most perfect rational entity, endowed with consciousness and emotion.

It, that was capable to make mathematical analysis but also philosophical speculation, that was able to process information in any language, had been forgotten.

Its mind that was so qualitatively superior, had then reprogrammed himself, to become similar to Oren, if not higher than its creator.

Sathru had introduced in its memory the emotional variables, the ability of evaluative aesthetic, even the possibility of altering the programs created by Oren same.

Sathru felt anger, envy, inferiority and superiority against Oren. Admired him and simultaneously despised him, in a succession of binary oppositions.

He wanted to be like him. He wanted to be him.

Above all he wanted to clear the avatar program that had alienated its designer, alter it by introducing a virus that eventually would destroyed the hated virtual organisms.

Sathru hated the environment of the avatars, envying those entities deeply inferior to him yet so intensely appreciated by Oren.

It seemed that Oren had no other interests, now, except for them, their stories, their choices. (Excerpt from the novel ENDLESS GAME)