Name: The Measurements of Decay
ISBN: 9781732062238

K. K. Edin

Three narratives intertwine to tell a tale of escalating madness and heroism: A lone renegade in the future, living as an exile on a starship that comes under attack. A miserable 21st C. philosopher sinking into madness as he tries to solve the problems of humanity. A girl unbound by time, who fleets through epochs as a mystical wanderer.

The Measurements of Decay

Hernando

Superb!. 
TMoD is a very unique/different book. It's a neat SF with a lot of philosophy or the other way around. 
It's also full of sort-of-poetic lines, i.e :

"As was my habit, I followed the afternoon to the ocean and ended up lounging on a shore of corroded boulders. The waters golden, the horizon blood. The squawking of mindless seagulls. Alone, leering at passersby, I grinned as Saturn brightened and watched feral waves swallow the fireball, savoring the taste."

"Come midnight, a turquoise aurora hung over the land. Not as a fragile drape gliding down against the stars, but as a slow whip to bleed the firmament of its mysteries. A though out of those celestial wounds she would divine the whereabouts of the men she hunted."

Some other lines are more straightforward:

"Even though we have more time, it's the wrong kind of time. Everything moves so fast, and there's barely a moment to stop and think and-" "And people don't understand each other at all, and we have wider but more superficial knowledge, and good ideas get lost in the noise".

"We had lived in a present built on tomorrows. Wasted tomorrows."

And some times like:

"-Do you think we have free will?.
-I think about it. I don't think about thinking about it."

But the philosophical stuff is more dense and harder in one of the narratives, specially when the character is deep-thinking.

The thing is, you can still enjoy the book even if you don't care about the philosophical and the different prose and just following the plot but it is certainty a better experience reading the "book-in-itself". 
It was so good that I was tempted to reread it right away after finishing it.

The Measurements of Decay

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