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When Steel Forgets
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 7 2025
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a world where memory is currency and machines remember better than humans, what happens when those machines begin to forget?
When Steel Forgets is a stunning, atmospheric sci-fi thriller by Viktoryia Konan that explores the fragile boundaries between consciousness, identity, and grief in a future shaped by artificial minds and buried pasts.
Seventy years after the mysterious disappearance of Virelia-a fabled city of engineers lost behind electromagnetic storms and wiped from all known maps-a fractured signal pulses across the deadlands. One word repeats: Help.
Ash Rennick, a rogue recon specialist, is the first to listen.
Drawn into the ruins of a city that should no longer exist, Ash finds more than he bargained for: a prototype AI known as Caelus-still alive, still dreaming, and dangerously unstable. Virelia, it turns out, did not die. It evolved. But something inside its ancient code is unraveling, and the memories it holds-memories of the people who once lived, loved, and perished there-are slipping into oblivion.
Together with a crew of misfits, hackers, and ghosts from his own past, Ash must descend into the machine's memories, navigating recursive dreams, broken timelines, and buried truths. But the deeper he goes, the more personal the mission becomes. Because somewhere inside Caelus is a piece of Ash's own forgotten history-and the key to humanity's last untold legacy.
Rich with world-building, When Steel Forgets is a blend of literary science fiction, cyberpunk noir, and existential mystery. Viktoryia Konan invites readers to question what it means to remember, to forget, and to be more than the sum of your code.
For fans of Blame!, Annihilation, Neuromancer, and The Memory Police, this book is a haunting meditation on the future of intelligence-both artificial and human.
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