The Architecture of Unmaking (Paperback)

Jon Compton

ISBN 10: 1969445033 / ISBN 13: 9781969445033

Published by Canvas Temple Publishing, LLC, 2025

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Paperback. 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Architecture of Unmaking (Paperback)
• Publisher: Canvas Temple Publishing, LLC
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1969445033
• ISBN 13: 9781969445033
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

What if the limits of the universe are not physical, but perceptual? What if the boundaries of reality shift when the human mind tries to see too clearly?

The Architecture of Unmaking is a sweeping cycle of fifteen interconnected stories that trace humanity’s struggle to understand the world it creates by observing it. From the quiet corridors of a deep-space research station to the ruins of future civilizations, each story explores what happens when consciousness evolves faster than the structures meant to contain it.

It begins with The Resolution Horizon, where scientists push beyond the smallest scale of reality and discover that meaning itself begins to unravel. From that moment forward, history bends inward. Across five great civilizational cycles, humanity learns, forgets, and rediscovers how thought now shapes the fabric of existence. Some stories follow scholars who risk their sanity to understand quantum truth. Others follow societies that rise and fall as perception itself becomes a tool of power.

Drawing on ideas from quantum physics, consciousness theory, and political philosophy, Jon Compton builds a world where science, myth, and mind converge. The result is an exploration of how civilizations collapse, how belief systems fracture, and how intelligence adapts when reality answers back.

For readers who enjoy visionary and deep reading, this book offers a journey that is both intellectually daring and emotionally resonant.

The Architecture of Unmaking asks a single question that grows larger with every page: When thought itself can alter the universe, what kind of world can still hold us together?

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.