The Lattice Diver's Debt

About this book

On the colonized exoplanet of Aurora, the Lattice is a planetary neural network that records every citizen's experiences. Talon Reed is an opportunistic neural hacker who makes his living diving behind encrypted firewalls to steal and sell these memories on the black market. When he accepts a highly lucrative job to extract the final, classified memories of a dying corporate executive, Talon inadvertently uncovers a devastating secret about Aurora's foundational history. The colony's terraforming success was built upon the deliberate eradication of a native microbial intelligence—an intelligence that survived and has now evolved to rewrite human minds through the network itself. Pursued by Lena Voss, a hard-edged security captain investigating a string of staged suicides, and haunted by the historical records of disgraced neuroscientist Dr. Mira Kade, Talon is dragged into a deadly conspiracy. As the intelligence begins its quiet extermination, Talon and his reluctant allies must navigate a treacherous underworld of acid-corroded domes and corporate death squads. They face an impossible dilemma: expose the truth and risk the collapse of the Lattice, dooming thousands to Aurora's toxic atmosphere, or stay silent and allow the alien intelligence to quietly wipe humanity from the planet.

Book details

Genres:

Mystery, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk Thriller, Dystopian

Language:

en

Published:

2026-05-12

Content rating:

R