Are we sure they that…

I just finished Absolution last week and have started a reread of the series from book 1. I haven’t read any other of their other works. Hypothesis: So, as I see it, the last book seems to really point to the entire artifice being about hypnosis. (And increasingly meta, on perception and writing itself)

If we can accept that what we see isn’t real( or the object itself) or so disguised in mimicry as to be unseen amongst the falsehoods, as are required by pretty much any interpretation of the text, it stands out as an interpretation that potentially preserves cause and effect.

The entirety of AreaX is a ouroboros of the government and intelligence agencies becoming embroiled in their own hypnotic programming in a terrifyingly disastrous way.

In response to the time issues, hallucinations and doubling. I say Many of the characters aren’t real but programmed personalities or the same person repeatedly being subjected to the same tests. Or are hallucinations.

Very hard to verify theory but I’m down for kicking the can.