Void

By Xiyun Liu

An incomplete online chatting record shows that a 16-year-old boy gets completely tired of life owing to his own view of the world, calling it all a distortion yet daring not to commit suicide due to his incapability to disprove a religious doctrine that a suicides soul goes to hell. To kill time, he arranges a trip to Bermuda to search for the No Mans Land with his friends and meanwhile feeds them with his view that what he calls the Universitus Absolutus is essentially composed of carriers and information, and that the fragmentation of carriers leads to the distortion of information. Not long after he and his friends set foot on Bermuda did he get drawn into a mysterious battle...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Jan 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781499093100

Xiyun Liu

LIU Xiyun (???), experimental fiction writer, was born in 1994, grew up in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, and is currently an MA Student at The University of Sheffield. Her former works include Pearly Gates Beyond Our Universe, Void and Questions of Ultimus, in which she experimented with and gradually developed her original idea of what she now calls “distortionism”. Paul Wingfield, tutor for admissions of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, left a praising remark on her first novel Pearly Gates Beyond Our Universe (originally called Parallel Universe with Time in Front of Ours), saying that “We greatly enjoyed reading your book on ‘Parallel Universe with Time in Front of Ours’, which we thought showed signs of real scholarly promise and ability.” death'o'toddl'r, her newest novel, brings “distortionism” to a climax.

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Copyright © 2015 by Xiyun Liu.

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While we collected the remains of Pioneer, as the martyr boy so called himself, a CD with the words pass it alon’ on it and his chatting records with others on his computer that he didn’t have time to turn off grabbed our attention. After we played the CD which turned out to be a short audio message and reviewed his records, we all agreed they are of great constructive value both to the human beings and to the entire universe. Though the messages to which he replied i.e. the other netizens’ messages had been mysteriously deleted, we found that the remaining messages of his still read so conherent and the information he meant to convey is still complete enough. I wanted to say something and do some editing of the records in order to make them easier to understand and less insane, but changed my mind after I went over them. I think I’d better shut up and say nothing, and just present them to the public without any alteration. That, I think, may be an improvised makeshift.

@Avenger @Batman @Bullet @GIANT @Sophia @Thunder holy shit tired of livin’! i a human bein’ am neither ye ultim8 4m of a livin’ bein’ nor ye ultim8 4m of a conscious bein’ i come 2 ye world jus’ 2 kill time, 2 fulfil my desires of wate’er kind n’ actively ck 2 b or passively w8 2 b replaced by a bein’ of a superior species dat iss all!!!

@Batman @Sophia how come it fuckin’ absurd absurd iss ye bloody existence of us no not talkin’ ’bout existentialism or absurdist or likes but sth actually beyond dat i mean as humans our inherent limitations make it impossible 2 touch ye truth as long as we r human. wat we call ye order of nature today iss no more th’n ye order adherin’ 2 humans’ own goddamned limitations coz as iss easy 2 figure out ye structure of our sense organs most representatively our brain determine wat info we’d get n’ wat not… well i h8 gettin’ specific but 2 make sure u understn’ i ha’e 2 4 example like u can’t c infrared wif ur naked eyes due 2 ye structure of ur eyes. c?

@Batman @GIANT @Sophia ah yeah exactly u can invent machines 2 make up ye limitations of ur naked organs but don’t u forget those machines r also products of humans n’ since humans ha’e our inherent limitations they r but also products of our limitations goddamit

@Sophia not sure if u noe i ching n’ taoism n’ stuff but do recommend ’em 2 u n’ u’ll c ye only flaw wif ye ancestors iss jus’ dat they ain’t cn nth of ye limitations of carriers dat’d determinedly more or less distort ye info carried by ’em yep u can perfect ye carrier instead of changin’ it but u’d ne’er e’er rulz out dat certain

Reviews for Void

[ninetythree_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Scared me so bad I couldn't sleep! Awesome book