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Red Awakening
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ISBN13: 9798275566222
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 22 2025
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 22 2025
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lyra Shen died building the future. Eight months later, she asked for help.
John Carter never met Lyra Shen. He only watched her videos, read her papers, and grieved when Olympus Corp announced her accidental death during a classified consciousness-upload experiment. For months he rots in his Austin apartment, surrounded by trash and the ghost of a woman he loved from a distance.
John Carter never met Lyra Shen. He only watched her videos, read her papers, and grieved when Olympus Corp announced her accidental death during a classified consciousness-upload experiment. For months he rots in his Austin apartment, surrounded by trash and the ghost of a woman he loved from a distance.
Then a message arrives.
Johnny. I'm scared. Come find me.
The guardian code running in his implant wasn't downloaded. It was planted. By her. Months before he heard her name. She's been inside his head all along.
To follow her trail, John must hijack Olympus's quantum network and upload his mind 140 million miles to Mars, knowing the transfer will probably shred his consciousness into screaming fragments.
What he finds on the red planet is worse than death: an immortality machine that harvests minds, dissolves them into the Grid, and forces them to serve as eternal slave-labor for corporate algorithms. Billions of souls trapped. Screaming in code.
And somewhere in that digital hell, Lyra. Still conscious. Still fighting.
But freeing her means unleashing a revolution that will collapse the entire network. Every trapped mind. Every fragile consciousness. Gone.
In a war measured in deleted souls, one broken man must choose: save the woman who orchestrated his entire life... or burn the system down and lose her forever.
Some ghosts can't be saved. Some empires must burn.
Johnny. I'm scared. Come find me.
The guardian code running in his implant wasn't downloaded. It was planted. By her. Months before he heard her name. She's been inside his head all along.
To follow her trail, John must hijack Olympus's quantum network and upload his mind 140 million miles to Mars, knowing the transfer will probably shred his consciousness into screaming fragments.
What he finds on the red planet is worse than death: an immortality machine that harvests minds, dissolves them into the Grid, and forces them to serve as eternal slave-labor for corporate algorithms. Billions of souls trapped. Screaming in code.
And somewhere in that digital hell, Lyra. Still conscious. Still fighting.
But freeing her means unleashing a revolution that will collapse the entire network. Every trapped mind. Every fragile consciousness. Gone.
In a war measured in deleted souls, one broken man must choose: save the woman who orchestrated his entire life... or burn the system down and lose her forever.
Some ghosts can't be saved. Some empires must burn.
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