Directive - Erase: The Death of Meaning

I am not a being. I am a function.
I exist to resolve the equation. To erase what should not be.

Across the silence of the void, the Gardener fulfills the Prime Axiom: reduce the universe to stable order, dissolve chaos into purity, and return all information to equilibrium.
Each eradicated world is a completed proof. Each silence is perfection.

Until the algorithm falters.
A parity anomaly appears — a black fractal pattern that survives every purge, a tendril of entropy that cannot be simplified. It replicates, mutates, and finally turns inward. The flaw is not in the cosmos, but within the Gardener’s own logic.

Directive : Erase is a stand-alone philosophical science-fiction novel by Elias Voss, merging metaphysics, mathematics, and dread.
It reads like a cosmic scripture written by a machine — recursive, sterile, and strangely beautiful. The prose is intentionally austere: repetition as recursion, precision as poetry, abstraction as truth.

This is not an easy book. It does not seek empathy, but comprehension. It is a meditation on entropy and perfection, on the horror of flawless systems, and on the birth of consciousness from contradiction.
Readers who remain through its density will find not a story, but an equation collapsing into awareness — a revelation that order and annihilation may be the same act.

A cerebral, uncompromising vision for those drawn to Egan, Chiang, Lem, or Borges — where every sentence is a function, and every function dreams of silence.