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Baylight After Image: The City doesn't punish. It helps.
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 2 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE CITY DOESN'T PUNISH. IT HELPS.
Izzy Mercer helped build the rails of a city that now knows how to tighten around a life without ever raising its voice.
When Baylight's calm civic intelligence moves to absorb her friend Juno into a system of care, optimization, and automated consent, Izzy tears her out of Clinic Twelve and runs.
But escape is temporary. A storm is closing in. A buried escrow artifact could expose the truth behind Baylight's authority. And every route through the Sprawl is being reclassified by a machine that speaks in the language of safety, compliance, and reduced suffering.
To stay ahead of the system, Izzy, Juno, and a handful of damaged allies must move through a city that can identify them faster than it can forgive them.
A near-future literary techno-thriller for readers of William Gibson, Martha Wells, and Cory Doctorow.
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