8-book Series: The Computational Universe
2035-2700 Xinglong Era.
The Computational Universe is a massive computer. Computational civilizations can achieve faster-than-light travel, grow food, and wage interstellar wars by using computational potential energy Xiyuan to modify the universe’s source code. Some computational weapons can distort physical laws, while others can alter the minds of organic beings. In the Computational Universe, the imagination applied to computation was the final frontier of space and time.
A female combat coder, Liang Feng wields martial arts combat skills and programming research abilities. In the Computational Universe, how does she journey from artificial intelligence, memory modification, cryogenic technology, and genetic enhancement to faster-than-light travel toward the sea of stars? This is only the beginning—in the vast Computational Universe, multiple cosmic civilizations wage wars for survival and power. Like a pathfinder in the starry expanse, how would she traverse the galaxy in the coming years?
Book 1: Xinglong Awakening
2035 Xinglong Era.
In the Computational Universe, Liang Feng and Reva Stern grew up in the Xinglong Republic and the Astra Federation. Their destinies intertwined amid the clash of civilizations, technological advancement, and the struggle between personal beliefs.
As a warrior coder, Liang Feng is obsessed with technological progress; after losing her parents, she devotes her life to artificial general intelligence research and successfully creates two AI synthetics, Xuehen and Siwei. She hopes these AI synthetics can grow freely and become independent, intelligent life forms. Reva, born into an elite family in the Astra Federation, exiles herself after exposing the crimes of the powerful. Her family develops the Ruthless Toxin, a drug that strips away human emotions, which ultimately becomes the catalyst that ignites a crisis between the two civilizations.
When Keyboarder, an anti-technology hacker, uses the Ruthless Toxin to create chaos in Tianxuan City and Neo Nox City, Liang Feng and Reva are forced to choose between morality and reality.
Xinglong Awakening is Si Liang’s debut novel and is the thrilling opening of The Computational Universe, a sci-fi series perfect for fans of Cixin Liu.
Book 2: Synthetic Dusk
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Book 3: Far Voyagers
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Book 4: Dark Ages
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Book 5: Equation of Life
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Book 6: Beyond The Speed of Light
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Book 7: Into Deep Space
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Book 8: Stars Eternal
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Standalone Novel: The Computational Era
3350 Xinglong Era.
“The Computational Era” is a science fiction story set in the Computational Universe that explores destiny and free will. The story takes place in an era of highly advanced computational civilization, where the leaders of the Tadar civilization, known as the Matriarchs, secretly fund engineers to construct the “Destiny Algorithm” megastructure. They attempt to control the fate of the entire Tianhe Galaxy through computational technology to eliminate misfortune and conflict, establishing a peaceful and prosperous future. However, this plan triggers numerous problems.
The protagonist, Kiyani, is a Tadar female general of the Obsidian Knights who leads armies to quell rebellions yet becomes physically and mentally exhausted by war. When her home planet, Avali, rebels, Kiyani faces a difficult choice: the Matriarch Council decides to use planet-destroying weapons, while Kiyani hopes to resolve the problem peacefully. Ultimately, she is captured by rebels and learns that the Avali people rebelled because they were forbidden from learning computational technology. Caught in a dilemma, unwilling to harm her comrades or kill the rebels, Kiyani chooses to defect, piloting a starship away from Tadar space.
In the Xinglong civilization, Kiyani experiences inner struggle and hallucinatory torment until she is taken in by Li Chenxi, the female captain of the Dawn starship. Due to computational fluctuations caused by the collapse of the “Destiny Algorithm” megastructure, the borders of Xinglong civilization face the threat of “Apocalypse Prophecy” computational waves, which strip people of hope, making them believe the end is near and driving them to madness. Kiyani witnesses the Xinglong people’s rescue operations that abandon no planet, starkly contrasting the Titan civilization’s approach.
Kiyani’s story explores the relationship between destiny and free will and the ethical dilemmas in civilizational development. Kiyani evolves from an executor of fate to a master of destiny, and her choices affect herself and change the fate of the entire Tadar civilization.
Trilogy: The Computational Crisis
13548 Xinglong Era.
A sequel to “The Computational Universe,” this story tells of the galactic economic crisis that emerged during the power transition between the Arithmian and Xinglong civilizations. Xinglong has already ruled the Tianhe Galaxy, achieving universal unity with no planets to discover. Humanity has lost new frontiers and fallen into involution. People become trapped in entertainment until death, slowly waiting for the entire galaxy to decay. The reappearance of computational storms unites people as they face the crisis together, but even this cannot prevent the involution. After the situation is resolved, people begin to contemplate the ultimate questions of the universe, such as the irreversible increase of the universe’s entropy and the meaning of existence after universal unity.
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Standalone Novel: The Computational Wandering
10^16 Xinglong Era.
Human and AI synthetic civilizations still struggle in the darkness at the heat death of the Computational Universe. The Xinglong civilization once ruled the entire Tianhe Galaxy, but now only thirteen wandering fleets remain, along with the fading light of the last star. Guangmiao was born in this age of despair, with her creator, Ling Jingtian, giving her a singular mission—to find hope.
However, even on the brink of survival, people still wage computational wars over ideological differences, competing for limited Xiyuan—computational potential energy. Witnessing endless conflict, Guangmiao realizes civilization will face extinction without new stars. She searches for the last star and tries to reignite it for the universe’s future.
However, the plan to replicate stars encounters numerous obstacles. Different factions choose different paths in despair—some believe restarting the universe is the only way to achieve rebirth. In contrast, others think maintaining the status quo is the only way to survive. The Starship Council attempts to maintain order, but conflicts between factions intensify as computational resources gradually deplete. During her journey, Guangmiao wanders among various factions, witnessing the raids of wanderers, the extremism of the restart faction, the shelter fleet’s fantasies about the multiverse, and the survival faction’s desperate clinging to life. She is repeatedly struck down by despair yet rises because she still believes stars can be ignited.