"Continuum manages, quite impressively, to be both a dramatically well-crafted sci-fi work, with action, plot, and emotional highs, and a slow, non-linear reflection on death, memory, and sorrow."”
– Modspor
"Incredibly well-written. And filled with highly relevant reflections on euthanasia, views on humanity, eternal life, AI, and ethics. I can in no way give the book enough praise."
– Bogrummet
"Continuum stands out not only because it is a Danish genre novel with international class, but it is also incredibly well-designed."
– Kulturkapellet
What if you could relive your best memory in an endless loop?
Continuum is a science fiction novel set in a virtual afterlife. The clients of the cryo-company Continuum are all terminal patients who wish to extend or renew their lives through artificially created consciousness. They want to live in a dream that never ends. A reality more real than reality itself.
The clients are frozen and experience a core memory in an endless loop. The system calls itself patented immortality. We follow the creator behind the system, the architect, on a strange journey through his own digital creation and the constant repetitions of fragments from his past. The form of the novel attempts to replicate this through linguistic mantras and spirals of narratives. A self-referential mosaic, where the repetitions blur the line between what is programmed and what the protagonist actually experienced in his lived life—and whether there is a difference.
As reality blurs, the reader is invited to question the architect's own motives and the authenticity of the memories he claims to recreate.
Continuum is a philosophical, speculative novel that explores themes such as euthanasia, grief, loss, and memory within a futuristic parallel reality.
About the creators:
Søren Lind (1970) is a Danish author and filmmaker, and the main person behind the script for Continuum. He holds a degree in philosophy from Roskilde University and New York University and has previously published philosophy books on language and knowledge.
The script was arranged in collaboration with Uncle Hawaii, who also created the book's graphic dimension. The pencil and note illustrations in Continuum were created by architect Jacob Kløcker.
