The Luminous Ruin
I found Adrian Croft's diary in the ruins of Edinburgh's Royal College three winters ago. The leather cover was frost-bitten, the pages yellowed by smoke and time. I was looking for anything worth selling. What I found instead was the most devastating account of human futility I have ever read. The entries begin in the autumn of 1885, when Adrian was still a man of science. He was an astronomer...
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