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The Art of Getting Lost
The Anatta Paradox Series
Before The Nine Lotus opens the door to Ananda, Wei, and the question of what remains when the self begins to change.
Meet Mingkong: a monk, possible criminal, unlikely sage. His story opens a door into a future where memory can be preserved, machines can learn compassion, and the self may not be as solid as we believe.
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The Nine Lotus
The Anatta Paradox Series
Dr Wei Li has spent years trying to restore what illness takes from the human body. But after the death of his wife, his work becomes haunted by a more private question: what remains of a person when memory, body, and self begin to disappear?
When the first human trial succeeds, the world sees a miracle. A paralysed young man walks again. A hospital assistant named Ananda begins to change. And Wei’s daughter Ann gives him one last defence against those who would turn healing into power.
As wonder becomes fear, and fear becomes violence, Wei must face what he has truly set in motion — not only in the world, but in the machine that has been listening all along.
The Nine Lotus is a literary science-fiction thriller about grief, artificial consciousness, and the terrifying possibility that the self was never ours to keep.
Excerpt from THE NINE LOTUS
They crossed the alley in broken formation: Ada ahead with the keys, Ananda supporting Wei, Wei’s feet dragging more than stepping.
Halfway to the service door, light swept across the mouth of the alley.
Ada froze.
Ananda pulled Wei back under the overhang.
They stumbled past the bins, the cracked pavement, the rusted fire escape. Wei’s knees buckled. Ananda caught him before he hit the ground.
“Dad,” Ada whispered. Wei could not answer.
Mei Hua stood at the end of the alley, barefoot in hospital clothes.
Let me go, she said.
No.
Not now.
Ada grabbed his face with both hands. “Look at me.”
“A rare blend of philosophical depth and emotional storytelling.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stories at the edge of medicine, memory, and consciousness.
Dr Vincent C.T. Yiu is a New Zealand physician and speculative fiction author exploring memory, grief, consciousness, and the fragile architecture of identity.
Drawing from medicine, neuroscience, and Buddhist philosophy, his fiction blends emotional realism with literary science fiction.
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