"On the fourteenth day of July 1924, when the tchinovniks of the Ministry of Winter came for me, on the evening of that day, on the eve of my Siberian Odyssey, only then did I begin to suspect that I did not exist. It may hint at Kafka in the ominous arrival of officials, or Borges in its metaphysical conundrum, but stranger things are afoot. In 1924 there was no tsar, let alone his bureaucrats, the tchinovniks."
"The rudely awakened sleeper is Benedykt Gierosawski, a Polish philosopher, logician, mathematician and gambler whose debts will be erased if he undertakes a special mission for the Ministry. He is to travel to Siberia, the wild east, and find his father, Filip, who was exiled there for anti-government activities. This is not clemency. Filip is now known as Father Frost, and as a geologist, radical and mystic, he might have a connection with what has occurred."
On 14 July 1924, tchinovniks of the Ministry of Winter come for Benedykt Gierosawski, who then suspects he does not exist. Benedykt is a Polish philosopher, logician, mathematician and gambler whose debts will be erased if he undertakes a mission to Siberia to find his exiled father, Filip. Filip, now called Father Frost, was exiled for anti-government activities and may have connections to the uncanny cold. A 1908 Tunguska comet created an expanding sentient cold called the gleiss that alters physics, producing superconducting coldiron, frostoglaze and blackwickes emitting unlicht. The blackout of historical events and new materials reshapes geopolitics, preventing the Russian Revolution and the First World War, while blending horror, humor, pathos and speculative science.
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