Vapor

Four thousand years after the Earth went silent, Varek is still awake at the bottom of Shackleton crater. He was uploaded in his thirty-first year, when the shuttles stopped coming and the lunar domes began to run out of air, and he was promised that his mind could last forever in the oldest cold in the solar system. Nobody told him that forever has weight. Silicon does not forget. Every afternoon he has lived is kept with perfect clarity, and now the lattice is full. To think one new thoug...