Status Updates From Shroud

Fascinating and oh so creepy.

This is a cool alien mentation model: a distributed identity that attenuates with distance and eventually calves into a new iteration.

Not a 'background' story. This demands FULL attention of my brain 🙏🥹
A first contact so alien humans can't understand what their eyes are showing them.
Classic Tchaikovsky and I am hooked!
Delightful that audiobook narrator is same as his Final Architect series (another brilliant mind bending space opera).