The Nine-Edged Mirror: Volumes I & II

In this combined edition of The Nine-Edged Mirror, the first eight narratives coalesce into a profound philosophical tapestry, chronicling the inexorable awakening of Margarita Smolina’s hypercosmic vision amid the crumbling veils of reality.

From the elegiac stillness of “Zavražje Reset” and the psychical obsessions of Circuit Break, through the ghostly entanglements of His Name Was Kay and the surreal allegories of The Deal, to the mythic revelations of The Wall of Fire, the temporal convolutions of 20 Knots or the Hypermandala, the carnivalesque disruptions of A Glitch in the Matrix, and the quantum precipices of The Event Horizon—these essays interweave biographical introspection, speculative metaphysics, and gothic folklore into an adventurous voyage, through which science confronts fable, isolation yields to cosmic entanglement, and the Expelled looms as an eternal antagonist to memory and meaning.

Imbued with Bulgakovian whimsy and Edwardian elegance, Volumes I & II form both an intellectual labyrinth and a lyrical invocation, mirroring the frictions between existential longing, profound solitude and mythic inevitability. A World Where Nothing Happens merges seamlessly into A World Where Something Happens, propelling The Molecule of Eternity towards its luminous core, and granting readers an intimate portal into a living manuscript fraught with enigma, tenderness, and ontological daring.

Alongside the core narratives, this edition enfolds exclusive lyrical fragments, appendices, and reflections destined to vanish from the final novel.