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Charlie-256
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
His first assignment should have been impossible to fail. Someone already did.
Private Daniel Scott has barely unpacked when he receives his operational designation: Charlie-256. His orders are simple-relieve the soldier occupying a remote observation post, monitor the enemy sector, and report anything that could become a viable target.
With an advanced sensor system watching in every direction and an artificial intelligence named ALICE guiding him, Scott appears to have every technological advantage a soldier could need.
Then he discovers what happened to Charlie-255.
Stranded, injured, and surrounded by an enemy he cannot see, Scott begins questioning the intelligence feeding him information-and the command structure receiving it. As the true purpose of his mission comes into focus, he must decide whether following orders makes him a good soldier or merely the next expendable component in a war machine that never stops.
Charlie-256 is a tense military science-fiction novelette about artificial intelligence, automated warfare, moral injury, and the deadly distance between seeing a target and understanding it.
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