Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence a remote & secret compound where death is exquisitely cryogenically controlled He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother Artis who has chosen to surrender her dying body; preserving it until a future time when biomedical advances & new technologies can return her to a life of transcendent promise & his healthy father Ross might join her Hypnotic & seductive Zero K is a visionary novel about the legacies we leave the nobility of death & the ultimate worth of 'the mingled astonishments of our time here on earth'