The Museum of Unlived Days

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In 2189, four million people survive inside the Sargasso, a drifting habitat hidden in Jupiter's magnetic shadow. Its holiest institution is the Museum of Unlived Days, where the outcomes discarded by every quantum decision are stored as harmless curiosities. Nobody is supposed to remember living them. Mara Venn, thirty-nine, audits continuity for a living: dry, precise, and privately haunted by memories of a daughter she has never had. The night before the annual exhibition of the Sargasso's founding counterday, she finds a museum placard describing her own death tomorrow at nine forty-one. At nine forty-one, a celebrated physicist dies instead — inside a sealed archive chamber nobody entered, remembering six mutually exclusive murders, each leaving a different physical trace. His last message reaches Mara as he dies. "You solved this yesterday. Don't let them make you innocent again."