Neural Frontier (Paperback)

Paperback. In the domed city of The Luster, every breath, bite, and heartbeat is managed by the Pulse - a global AI that assigns every citizen a Value Score determining what they eat, who they befriend, and how the world treats them. Fifteen-year-old Silas Thorne has a score of zero. The kiosks won't serve him. The Friendship Match algorithm skips his name every Monday. He sits alone at Table 14, invisible to a system that runs ten million lives and can't be bothered to notice his. Then his score goes negative - and the machine that never saw him suddenly can't look away. Plunged into The Syntax, a hidden civilization built in the ruins beneath the dome, Silas discovers that his invisibility isn't a glitch. It's a weapon - a genetic kill switch engineered by the woman who created the Pulse, designed to be the one thing the system can never predict or control. Now Silas must master a power he barely understands while hunted by Sentinels wearing the faces of his classmates, confronting a clone living his life better than he ever could, and facing an impossible choice: reboot the system and erase four thousand people, let the dome collapse and doom ten million, or find a third option that no one - not even the machine - believes exists. The Neural Frontier is a YA sci-fi novel about what happens when the thing that makes you invisible becomes the thing that makes you unstoppable. It's a story about being unseen, being underestimated, and discovering that the most powerful force in a world that runs on data is the one thing data can never measure. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…