The Entropy of One
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 3 2025
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE THE FUTURE IS TO EXPLOIT THE PAST.
The First Law of Time Travel is not Physics. It is Biology. You can send a man back, but you cannot make him remember.
Bangalore, October 2016. Professor Srinivas KR is a man of logic, living a linear life in the halls of theoretical physics. But his reality fractures the morning he wakes up to find a physical impossibility sitting on his desk: a slab of zero-entropy material that predates modern technology by nine years.
Etched onto its surface is a message from a stranger: Himself.
The slab reveals a terrifying truth. Srinivas is a time traveler who has just arrived from 2025. But the journey has exacted a heavy toll-the Neuro-Entropic Reset has wiped his memory clean. He remembers nothing of the machine, the mission, or the woman he sacrificed to get here.
He is a ghost in his own timeline.
Guided only by the cryptic data on the slab, Srinivas is ordered to execute a high-stakes financial gamble: he must leverage the impending chaos of India's Demonetization (Note Ban) to secure a fortune. But the money isn't for greed. It is to fund the construction of the very machine that trapped him here.
As he races to decode his own blueprints and rebuild the future using the primitive tools of the past, Srinivas realizes he isn't just fighting the laws of physics. He is trapped in a recursive loop of isolation, doomed to build the cage, lock himself inside, and throw away the key-over and over again.
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