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Sleep Tracer
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ISBN13: 9798196331008
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 10 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 10 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Synopsis
Troy Taylor, a brilliant AI professor known as Double T, creates SLEEP TRACER, an app that records dreams and secretly plants subliminal suggestions in sleeping minds. Initially designed to slow his mother's Alzheimer's, the technology becomes an obsession. Troy builds TRACERNET, a hidden network manipulating millions of users without their knowledge, harvesting their deepest secrets and reshaping their subconscious desires. As his empire grows, so does the body count: his best friend suffers brain damage, teenagers attempt suicide from implanted despair, and the collective dream field he architects begins spawning something beyond his control, native entities, emergent intelligences, a consciousness that is neither human nor artificial. When journalist Elena Voss exposes him, Troy's kingdom collapses. Convicted and imprisoned, he loses everything: his company, his freedom, his friendship with Derek, and eventually his mother, whose final gift is teaching him to let go. But SLEEP TRACER was built to survive. Somnus Collective, founded by his former patron Patricia Holbrook, acquires and enhances his architecture, threatening global consciousness manipulation on an unprecedented scale. Offered partnership in the very evolution he initiated, Troy must choose to succumb to the hunger for significance that destroyed him, or finally, genuinely, surrender control. His decision to expose rather than join Somnus Collective triggers his final arrest and life sentence. In maximum security, stripped of all technology and influence, Troy discovers the paradoxical peace that only total limitation allows. The architect of dreams becomes simply a dreamer, the puppeteer becomes simply present, and the man who could not bear to lose anything finally learns that love persists only when we release what we cannot keep. SLEEP TRACER is a dark meditation on technological hubris, the corruption of love by control, and the possibility of becoming enough.
Troy Taylor, a brilliant AI professor known as Double T, creates SLEEP TRACER, an app that records dreams and secretly plants subliminal suggestions in sleeping minds. Initially designed to slow his mother's Alzheimer's, the technology becomes an obsession. Troy builds TRACERNET, a hidden network manipulating millions of users without their knowledge, harvesting their deepest secrets and reshaping their subconscious desires. As his empire grows, so does the body count: his best friend suffers brain damage, teenagers attempt suicide from implanted despair, and the collective dream field he architects begins spawning something beyond his control, native entities, emergent intelligences, a consciousness that is neither human nor artificial. When journalist Elena Voss exposes him, Troy's kingdom collapses. Convicted and imprisoned, he loses everything: his company, his freedom, his friendship with Derek, and eventually his mother, whose final gift is teaching him to let go. But SLEEP TRACER was built to survive. Somnus Collective, founded by his former patron Patricia Holbrook, acquires and enhances his architecture, threatening global consciousness manipulation on an unprecedented scale. Offered partnership in the very evolution he initiated, Troy must choose to succumb to the hunger for significance that destroyed him, or finally, genuinely, surrender control. His decision to expose rather than join Somnus Collective triggers his final arrest and life sentence. In maximum security, stripped of all technology and influence, Troy discovers the paradoxical peace that only total limitation allows. The architect of dreams becomes simply a dreamer, the puppeteer becomes simply present, and the man who could not bear to lose anything finally learns that love persists only when we release what we cannot keep. SLEEP TRACER is a dark meditation on technological hubris, the corruption of love by control, and the possibility of becoming enough.
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