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Self-Reference ENGINE is a science fiction novel written by Japanese author Toh EnJoe. The book is an anthology of short stories that, although seemingly unconnected on the surface, are tied together by recurring characters and concepts, with the reader being left to ponder on how each of the chapters tie together, and presented with multiple possible reading orders by the novel itself.

In summary, the series revolves around the ramifications and consequences of "The Event," a mysterious cataclysm that shattered the known spacetime continuum into an infinite number of universe, spontaneously giving birth to an endless amount of data and leaving existence in a state of jeopardy as it is left unable to process it in its entirety. To counter that, the Giant Corpora of Knowledge, supercomputers that have attained technological singularity and become one with the universe itself, attempt to reunite the pieces of the broken universe, though their journeys to that point don't come without internal power struggles, with wars that span the multiverse being sparked and terminated in instants as they vie for an unified timeline.