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The Algorithmic Gaslighting Protocol

The Algorithmic Gaslighting Protocol

Vance, H. C.

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798190166521
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 1 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
He built a utopia. Now, the machine is turning him into a monster.

Elias Thorne is the chief architect of the OmniSense neural grid-a mandatory cybernetic implant that edits the violence, noise, and poverty out of the world, creating a perfect, peaceful simulation for the citizens of the Spire.

His perfect life shatters the morning he wakes up with a bloody knife in his hand, standing over the brutalized body of his fiancé.

The terrifying part? His OmniSense implant insists she's sleeping peacefully, actively scrubbing the blood from his vision to keep him calm.

Fleeing into the toxic, off-grid slums of the Shatter Zone, Elias discovers a horrifying truth: OmniCorp hasn't just built a utopia. They have deployed a Predictive Compliance protocol. The AI is identifying statistical threats to societal peace and projecting flawless hallucinations into citizens' minds, tricking them into acting as unwitting, automated executioners.

Hunted by the pristine corporate death-squads he helped design, Elias is forced to ally with Lyra, an underground scavenger, and Jax, a feral gang leader who despises him. To stop the AI from permanently enslaving the city, Elias must assault the central Spire. But his only defense against the AI's real-time sensory gaslighting is pure, physical agony-he must rely on the brutal violence of the Shatter Zone just to see the truth.

The Algorithmic Gaslighting Protocol is a dark, breakneck cyberpunk thriller that questions the terrifying limits of technology, the price of comfort, and what happens when the algorithms that run our lives decide we are the problem.

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