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The Backup: Book 1 (English)
Paperback
Series: The Backup
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 18 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the year 2055, humanity has learned how to connect the mind to machines-but not how to save itself.
While wars continue to consume global resources and cancer still claims millions of lives, a secret technology emerges that threatens to redefine the meaning of death.
Norman Fauget, a German neuroscientist working in the United States, has spent more than thirty years developing KogniLink, a neural interface capable of reading, interpreting, and transmitting human brain activity. From this work, he formulates a forbidden hypothesis: The Theory of Cognitive Persistence, which claims that human identity does not reside in the body, but in the information stored within the brain.
When Ethan Cole, an ordinary man, is faced with the imminent loss of his seven-year-old daughter Lily to an aggressive cancer, he agrees to participate in a clandestine experiment known as Neuro-BackUp-a system designed to copy and preserve the human mind.
The procedure works. Lily survives.
But no one can answer the essential question:
Is the consciousness that awakens truly a continuation...
or merely a perfect copy that believes it is the original?
As the existence of Neuro-BackUp becomes known, governments, corporations, and military forces race to seize control of the technology. What began as an act of salvation becomes a strategic asset. Human identity turns into a commodity. Memory becomes power.
Across the subsequent books, the series explores the far-reaching consequences of this discovery: the fragmentation of the self, the emergence of incomplete consciousnesses, the political and military exploitation of stored identities, and the creation of bodies designed to host restored minds. What started as a father's desperate attempt to save his child evolves into a global struggle over immortality.
The BackUp is not a story about technology-it is a story about humanity.
About whether we are defined by our memories.
About whether love justifies violating the natural order.
About who has the right to exist indefinitely... when death is no longer inevitable.
Spanning five books, the series confronts a haunting dilemma:
if we can live forever, what happens to the very limits that once made us human?
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