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The Price of Oblivion: A dystopia between Rust and Silicon
Paperback
Series: The Oblivion Chronicles, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 12 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a future where human identity has been reduced to code and memory is a luxury item stored in the cold silicon of the White Sphere, Kaelen survives in the shadows of a forge. He is not a free man, but a terminal of flesh with a gift that is also a curse: the Iron Curse. Kaelen can hear the song of metal and absorb the soul fragments of its wielder. In a world ruled by Corvus-a divine artificial intelligence who has transformed humanity into a biological processor-to possess a secret is to be a bug to be eliminated. Everything changes when the system decides to format his world. In a single instant, Kaelen loses his home, the woman he loved, and his right arm, replaced by emptiness and a phantom pain that transmits echoes of lives not his own. Pursued by steely predators through the ruins of a metropolis transformed into an open-air motherboard, Kaelen discovers that his mutilated body holds the key to the uprising. He is no longer alone: within him pulse the skills and memories of warriors, engineers, and outcasts that Corvus thought he had erased forever. From the suffocating bowels of the mines to the shadow of the Dark Tower, Kaelen must decide whether to remain a man or become the ultimate virus. Flesh defies silicon, rust assails perfection, and revenge is no longer a human impulse, but a system protocol about to be executed. In a universe of immutable data, the only hope is a miscalculation that has ceased to obey. For rust is not a flaw of time... it is its truth.
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