The Boy With No Ports

About this book

Raised in a secretive, anti-technology enclave outside the neon-drenched megacity of New Kowloon, seventeen-year-old Elias is entirely unaugmented, navigating life with scarred knuckles and zero neural ports. When corporate enforcers violently raid his home and abduct his mother to find an alleged "bloodline backdoor," Elias flees into the rainy, holographic streets carrying only a metal lockbox of his grandfather's black-market memory wafers. Out of his depth in a society where memories are currency and identity is fluid, Elias begins jacking into the illegal implants, experiencing vivid, full-sensory overlays of his grandfather Kai's life during the turbulent 2041 "Gridfall" era. In the 2087 present, Elias falls in with a crew of young data-smugglers led by the sharp-tongued Lin-9, whose transparent polycarbonate arm pulses with fiber-optic veins. Together, they hunt for a missing final wafer that proves the ruling conglomerate intends to roll out a mandatory "Unity Patch," erasing offline bloodlines to enforce corporate loyalty. As Elias strictly alternates between his visceral struggle for survival in 2087 and Kai's brutal historical reckoning in 2041, he must decide whether to abandon his analog humanity. To save his newfound family, the boy who once measured time by the sun must willingly undergo harrowing back-alley surgeries to install illegal military-grade ports, risking everything in a city-wide blackout riot to upload a code that will change the course of human evolution.

Book details

Genres:

Historical Fiction, Cyberpunk, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Thriller

Language:

en

Published:

2026-04-29

Content rating:

R