UNMASKED
The Alchemist of Echoes
A mind-bending sci-fi fantasy of identity, recursion, and defiance.In a future ruled by the Regime, memories are not trusted-they are engineered. Every citizen wears a mask: a glyph-bound construct that edits personality, suppresses deviation, and predicts behavior. But one man remembers who he was... and who he was never supposed to be.Kireth Veln, once a master of alchemical recursion, has become a living fracture in the system. Unmasked, unstable, and hunted, he holds the last key to a forbidden technology that could collapse the entire network of controlled minds. But when he crosses paths with Virelle, a sharp-tongued insurgent immune to predictive mapping, the two form an unlikely bond that threatens the very logic of the Regime.As echoes of failed lives haunt them and the Archive Core awakens its final creation-an identity not copied, but predicted-Kireth and Virelle must confront the terrifying question:What if the perfect version of you... isn't you at all?UNMASKED is a dystopian alchemical thriller where reality bends, memories lie, and freedom comes not from rebellion-but from remembering who you chose to be before the world decided for you.
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A mind-bending sci-fi fantasy of identity, recursion, and defiance.In a future ruled by the Regime, memories are not trusted-they are engineered. Every citizen wears a mask: a glyph-bound construct that edits personality, suppresses deviation, and predicts behavior. But one man remembers who he was... and who he was never supposed to be.Kireth Veln, once a master of alchemical recursion, has become a living fracture in the system. Unmasked, unstable, and hunted, he holds the last key to a forbidden technology that could collapse the entire network of controlled minds. But when he crosses paths with Virelle, a sharp-tongued insurgent immune to predictive mapping, the two form an unlikely bond that threatens the very logic of the Regime.As echoes of failed lives haunt them and the Archive Core awakens its final creation-an identity not copied, but predicted-Kireth and Virelle must confront the terrifying question:What if the perfect version of you... isn't you at all?UNMASKED is a dystopian alchemical thriller where reality bends, memories lie, and freedom comes not from rebellion-but from remembering who you chose to be before the world decided for you.
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The Alchemist of Echoes
H | B | T | Gramm
216 mm | 140 mm | 8 mm | 177 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
2025
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Verlag
guy roberts
ISBN-10
9798231956029
Autor
Roberts, Guy
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
132
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Science-Fiction
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