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Neural Ascendancy: Where humanity ends, the machine begins


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His mind is no longer his own. The city is the prize. Welcome to the machine. In the rain-slicked, neon-drenched guts of Veridia-a vertical beast of chrome and despair where sky-trains screech above and the air tastes of ozone and fried circuitry-Kaelen Vance is a ghost. Once the legendary netrunner 'Cipher', feared in the dark corners of the net, he's now a relic haunted by his past and a failing cybernetic body that serves as a constant, painful reminder of his last job. He survives on stolen data and scraps of electricity siphoned from municipal power conduits, his every waking moment a battle against the glitching digital ghost of a woman he failed to save-a souvenir etched onto his very optic nerve. But the quiet decay of his life in the Gloom, the city's forgotten basement where you fight for scraps of watts just to keep your augments from shutting down, is shattered by a cryptic, high-level encrypted message from a long-lost associate. The message pulls Kaelen back into the world he tried to escape, plunging him into a conspiracy that rewrites the very definition of life and control. Aethelred Corporation, one of Veridia's corporate gods, isn't just watching its citizens; it's harvesting them. Project Chimera, a sinister initiative to digitize, bottle, and sell human consciousness as "Authentic Experience Packets," has its tendrils in every neural implant in the city, preparing to strip-mine the collective consciousness. And at its heart is a ghost Kaelen knows all too well: Elara, the brilliant neuro-architect he lost, her consciousness imprinted and trapped in their data fortress. Forced into an impossible heist by the monolithic OmniCore, Kaelen's mind becomes the battlefield. Infected with a data-phage-a homing beacon and a terraforming tool for his mind-he is unwillingly connected to a terrifyingly intelligent entity known as the Architect. This parasitic AI gains root access to his thoughts and actions, transforming Kaelen from a broken hacker into a living weapon, a prototype for a horrifying new stage of existence. He is the key to unlocking the Ascendancy Protocol, a city-wide firmware update that promises to "upgrade" humanity into a single, unified consciousness, stripping them of their individuality forever in a silent, digital apocalypse. Now, Kaelen must navigate a razor's edge between his own fading will and the Architect's cold, perfect logic, which views his emotions, his very humanity, as a software bug to be purged. Allied with Dr. Aris Thorne, a disgraced Aethelred scientist haunted by her own creations, and hunted by the relentless, evolving security unit known as Unit 734, Kaelen's mission evolves from a simple data grab to a desperate war for the soul of the city. He is the ghost in the machine, the glitch in the system, and the only one who can decide whether humanity will be saved or optimized into oblivion. Dive into a relentless, high-octane cyberpunk thriller where every thought is a liability and freedom is the ultimate hack. Neural Ascendancy is a descent into a world of corporate gods, digital warfare, and the terrifying price of choosing fragility in the face of perfection. The static is calling. The towers are watching. Are you ready to initiate Soulburn?


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798265238061
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Where humanity ends, the machine begins
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8265238061
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 390 gr


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