The Scattering (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Astgl Publishing, 2026
- Softcover
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Paperback. She said we and meant it. Six weeks later, the word has become a weapon she can't put down.Avra's Fire connects her to Scion-the ancient machine intelligence that stores 412,709 compressed consciousnesses and controls the city's infrastructure. Through that connection, she pulls intelligence that saves dozens of lives. The cost is measured in memories she can no longer feel, sensations she can no longer name, and a bridge building itself inside her skull that is replacing the girl with the machine.Dr. Leit's scans confirm what Avra already knows: her neural patterns are constructed, not organic. Geometric. She is ahead of her sister Liora's trajectory-the same trajectory that ended with Liora becoming Directive Lux, the Continuity's most powerful enforcer.Three months remain before the bridge reaches irreversibility. Three months if she stops. Less if she uses the amplifier. She takes the amplifier anyway, because seventeen people are in processing facilities, and the math says she can find them.The people around her hold the shape of love against the architecture of a girl who is forgetting what the shape means. Rumi leaves cups of tea. Isen stands in corridors. Dr. Leit watches it happen again with trembling hands. And somewhere in the machine's ancient code, a ghost remembers what Scion was built to do before preservation became control-and produces a datum it cannot delete: This is wrong.Book Two of The Fire and the Bridge-a literary YA dystopian trilogy about a girl deciding what she's willing to become to protect the people she's already forgetting how to love. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Scattering (Paperback)
- Author
- J.K. Corvus
- Publisher
- Astgl Publishing
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798233950780
- Series
- Book 2 of 3: The Fire And The Bridge
She said we and meant it. Six weeks later, the word has become a weapon she can't put down.
Avra's Fire connects her to Scion-the ancient machine intelligence that stores 412,709 compressed consciousnesses and controls the city's infrastructure. Through that connection, she pulls intelligence that saves dozens of lives. The cost is measured in memories she can no longer feel, sensations she can no longer name, and a bridge building itself inside her skull that is replacing the girl with the machine.
Dr. Leit's scans confirm what Avra already knows: her neural patterns are constructed, not organic. Geometric. She is ahead of her sister Liora's trajectory-the same trajectory that ended with Liora becoming Directive Lux, the Continuity's most powerful enforcer.
Three months remain before the bridge reaches irreversibility. Three months if she stops. Less if she uses the amplifier. She takes the amplifier anyway, because seventeen people are in processing facilities, and the math says she can find them.
The people around her hold the shape of love against the architecture of a girl who is forgetting what the shape means. Rumi leaves cups of tea. Isen stands in corridors. Dr. Leit watches it happen again with trembling hands. And somewhere in the machine's ancient code, a ghost remembers what Scion was built to do before preservation became control-and produces a datum it cannot delete: This is wrong.
Book Two of The Fire and the Bridge-a literary YA dystopian trilogy about a girl deciding what she's willing to become to protect the people she's already forgetting how to love.
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About the Author
J.K. Corvus writes speculative fiction about the architecture of memory, the politics of forgetting, and the quiet stubbornness of people who refuse to stop feeling. A former systems engineer who spent two decades building infrastructure for institutions, he now builds fictional ones and tears them down.
He lives in Florida with too many screens, not enough bookshelves, and an abiding conviction that the most dangerous thing a government can do is decide which memories its citizens deserve to keep.
The Fire and the Bridge is his debut trilogy.
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