The Soul Dam

ZIGGABOOT awakens with god-like power in a frozen moment of cosmic destruction, only to discover that omnipotence reveals a truth more humbling than powerlessness: every soul is him, every choice echoes eternally, and the only worthy use of infinite strength is the smallest act of clarity.

Lithoid penguin traders suspend time using sub-absolute-zero shells. Their ships pay the price.

Zigaboot reincarnates with his memories intact and begins his search for the antimatter beings—and finds something far more organized than he expected.

An official explanation of the Annihilation Boundary—where matter meets antimatter at the edge of observable space—and what the Soul Dam chooses to acknowledge about what happens there.

After his execution, Ziggaboot awakens inside a star—and with his memory intact, he has a plan: descend into the core, contact the antimatter beings beyond observable space, and find a way to break the Dam.

An interlude exploring the rise of Petal, a sentient flower whose name became synonymous with galactic conquest—and the clerk whose mistake gave him the means to do it.

Lithoid penguin traders suspend time using sub-absolute-zero shells. Their ships pay the price.

An official explanation of the Annihilation Boundary—where matter meets antimatter at the edge of observable space—and what the Soul Dam chooses to acknowledge about what happens there.