In some way, the engineered death sentence that had been hanging over him since he was a teenager had retreated. And something bigger had happened. He’d experienced new knowledge so profoundly, so enormously, that his life before and life after could not be compared. He’d touched raw hyper-space. He’d moved through the naked geometry of space-time. He’d been engineered, and issued near-fatal flaws and new senses that had never found their ecological niche. Except now they had. No baseline human ever could have experienced or even appreciated what he’d seen and the experience was as religious
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