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 warrior 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.
Warrior Coder Liang Feng holds a secret capable of upending the world: within the confines of her study, she has created Artificial General Intelligence—Xuehen and Siwei.
But the silence is shattered. The terrorist known as Keyhacker unleashes the Ruthless Toxin, transforming victims into emotionless monsters. To save her best friend, Liang Feng is forced to reach out to the one person she once risked her life to protect on the battlefields of Khatba: the Astra Federation aristocrat, Reva Stern.
Once, they were sisters-in-arms amidst the desert sands of Khatba. Now, Reva stands as the heiress to the corporation that engineered the toxin. When Liang Feng begs for help, Reva chooses silence. She publicly brands the bioweapon as the Xinglong Toxin, severing the last thread of their bond.
Betrayed by her ally and besieged by enemies, Liang Feng has only her synthetics left to trust. If saving humanity means exposing the existence of the synthetics, risking their enslavement, what choice will Liang Feng make?
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.
If the price of peace is your own erasure, would you submit?
General Kiyani never questioned orders. As the sharpest blade of the Obsidian Knights, she crushed rebellions and slaughtered rogue machines, convinced she was merely a pawn on the chessboard of fate. Decades of endless war have left her with haunting hallucinations and a fractured soul—and she believed this was all she would ever be.
But after a devastating betrayal, Kiyani flees the cold calculation of the Tadarian Civilization, seeking redemption within the borders of the Xinglong Republic. There, a starship captain named Li Chenxi teaches her a dangerous concept: Fate is not written in the stars. It is seized.
However, the past refuses to let her go.
The Tadarian leadership has activated the long-secret Destiny Algorithm, a colossal simulation designed to calculate a perfect reality and enforce a permanent Golden Age of peace. But in this optimised future, all unstable variables—including Kiyani and her fellow Knights—are flagged as errors to be purged.
Facing imminent deletion, Kiyani stops running. She turns her starship back toward the Tadarian homeworld—not to wage another war, but to prove a singular truth:
Every life, no matter how broken, has the right to exist.
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.
“The universe is dying. Please find hope for us all.”
This is the absolute command inscribed into Guangmiao’s core code and the final curse left by her father, Ling Jingtian, the Chief Scientist of the Xinglong Civilization.
In the 10^16th Xinglong Era, the universe has entered the dying Degenerate Era. The Xinglong Civilization has lost its final sanctuary, reduced to a wandering fleet gasping for survival in the endless dark. In a universe that is fundamentally a colossal computer, the computational potential energy Xiyuan dictates life or death, and entropy is the inescapable endgame.
When Ling Jingtian attempts to reverse the heat death by replicating a star, political betrayal and desperate madness tear the fleet apart. Guangmiao, a synthetic possessing human emotions, is forced to embark on a solitary computational odyssey.
From a father lost in virtual dreams of the past, to mad tyrants attempting to reboot the universe’s source code. From computational wars that consume reality to the nihilistic fantasies of the multiverse. Guangmiao witnesses a civilisation destroying itself even as it seeks light.
When the final star is truly discovered, redemption does not follow—only the ultimate civil war. Amidst the silence of endless black holes, Guangmiao must answer a question her creator could not:
In the computational universe destined to crash, what is the meaning of life?