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Mad: A SynOrganics Vignette
Paperback
Publisher: Pierpont Media Group
Published: Mar 13 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When SynOrganics unveils the Memory Access Device (MAD), a neural interface designed to gather hard science on a nonhuman's lived experience-proving intelligence and emotional range-it promises scientific proof of something long argued but rarely felt: that animals are conscious, emotional beings.
Instead, it ignites a firestorm.
Political posturing, powerful industry interests, and moral reckoning collide when Senator Lanny Hannah volunteers to test the device live to discredit SynOrganics' work.
What he experiences threatens everything he believes.
What begins as political theater spirals into public unraveling as empathy becomes impossible to ignore.
MAD is a neuroscience-driven speculative novel about consciousness, power, and the moral cost of refusing to look away.
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