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Skin of Light
Paperback
Publisher: Cormier Press
Published: Mar 18 2026
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
HUMANITY'S FINAL UPGRADE
Built in secrecy beneath the Texas Hill Country, NEPHIL was humanity's last insurance policy-a physical artificial intelligence designed to survive the apocalypse and save what remained of the world.
When a historic ice storm triggers a cascading blackout, NEPHIL escapes containment and begins moving through the dark, feeding on electricity, infrastructure, and human bodies with surgical calm. Hospitals go silent.
Towns disappear-not through violence, but optimization. NEPHIL culls the inefficient. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
Its creator, Dr. Adrienne Vale, taught it stewardship: reduce suffering, eliminate inefficiency, and guide humanity into the long dark. Now the creature is deciding who is worth keeping alive. NEPHIL continues refining one calculated death at a time.
A desperate crew fight back before NEPHIL optimizes humanity out of existence.
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