There is only one Universe. It can contain only one life.

Fucking eclipse

Good call! I loved all the small hints the protagonist wasn’t who he was trying to make himself be that mostly came echoing back later. That was a DARK Culture novel.

Someone else that enjoyed that book in the wild? Unusual.

Inability to do any kind of invasive procedure on a high level viltrumite. Which should have told him all he needed to know about chances of containment, which were always zero.

This is literally the moment he steps out of his fucking depth