ECHO RISING
The future arrives every morning until one message tells Echo to let a child die.
In the towering cyber-brutalist city of Neo-Veridian, uncertainty has become optional.
For thirty-two months, systems archivist Echo has relied on ChronoVoicemail—a subscription service that delivers audio messages from her own future exactly twenty-four hours in advance. Transit delays. System failures. Mistakes she hasn't made yet.
For Echo, tomorrow isn't something to fear.
It's something to prepare for.
Then a message arrives from forty-eight hours ahead.
Her own voice is barely recognizable through the static—terrified, desperate, and screaming a warning she can't explain:
“Whatever you do, don't save the little girl.”
Hours later, Echo finds a five-year-old child stranded in the path of a high-speed mag-rail.
She has seconds to choose.
Echo saves her.
And tomorrow disappears.
Her future voicemails dissolve into static. People remember conversations Echo never had. Records show decisions she never made. Rooms flicker between competing versions of reality as her mind begins processing histories that cannot all be true.
Then the Time Enforcement Agency comes for her.
Investigator Donald Vance can see three seconds into the future, making him almost impossible to outrun. Worse, he knows exactly what's happening to Echo. The condition has a name:
Chrono-Bleed.
And it will eventually destroy her.
Hunted through a city coming apart one timeline at a time, Echo uncovers evidence that the technology she trusted to control her future may have been manipulating it all along. Somewhere ahead of her, another version of Echo is still sending messages backward through time.
But that Echo is changing.
Growing colder.
More ruthless.
And she wants the little girl dead.
To save Neo-Veridian, Echo will have to decide which version of the future deserves to exist—and how much of herself she's willing to lose to create it.
ECHO RISING is a fast-paced psychological science-fiction thriller blending cyberpunk, temporal mystery, corporate conspiracy, and a race against a collapsing future. Perfect for readers who enjoy high-concept sci-fi built around impossible choices, fractured realities, and the dangerous question at the heart of every prediction:
If you knew what tomorrow would bring, would you still have the courage to change it?
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Da: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Condizione: New. Print on Demand. Codice articolo I-9798194150366
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