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The Architecture of Unmaking: The Quantum Magic Cycle

The Architecture of Unmaking: The Quantum Magic Cycle


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The Architecture of Unmaking is a cycle of fifteen interwoven stories that trace humanity's recursive journey through collapse and renewal across five distinct cycles. It begins with hard science unraveling in The Resolution Horizon, where an experiment at Axis Verge slips below the scales where meanings hold and sparks a transformation in how minds meet reality. The book then turns from laboratories to lives. In The Echo at Old Dunhill, a child's chalk spirals tilt a rural town from habit into ritual and then into impossible phenomena, revealing how belief and attention can move matter. The Stair That Returns wrestles with whether to break, surrender to, or subtly alter the keystone that keeps a city coherent. The Divergent Eye follows a hunter who steps outside a collective field that keeps the world still and learns what changes when one person keeps looking. By the final cycle the question is ethical as much as metaphysical. In To Hold One Thing, travelers debate whether to anchor a perfect valley and lose the rest, or release it and keep moving, a choice that reframes survival as consent rather than control. Threaded through the whole work is a unifying mythos. The First Collapse did not destroy us so much as translate us, embedding a nanoscale interpretive lattice into consciousness. Magic here is a sense-making rather than the supernatural, and the arc moves from command to courtesy, from fixing the world in glass to letting it breathe. The architecture is a dance rather than a fortress. Across these five cycles, the collection blends science fictional precision with mythic intimacy, asking what we owe to coherence, what we risk for truth, and how to live when reality answers back.

About the Author :
Jon Compton, Ph.D., chairs the Wargaming Department at the U.S. Naval War College, where he leads AI-enabled modeling, simulation, and systemic analytics initiatives for fleet sponsors. His research spans deterrence, systemic conflict, and the design of decision-focused games. Jon is also an independent author and publisher at Canvas Temple Publishing. His recent work includes The Architecture of Unmaking and the Deadwake universe, a cross-media RPG and fiction setting built on rigorous theory. He writes primarily on strategy and deterrence, impacts of technology on conflict, and complex human systems.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781969445033
  • Publisher: Canvas Temple Publishing, LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Canvas Temple Publishing, LLC
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 334
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  • Sub Title: The Quantum Magic Cycle
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1969445033
  • Publisher Date: 16 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 498 gr


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