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Echoes of Control: Rewilding the Neural Network

Book 3 in Neural Nexus Saga

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by P M Stryker

The systems are learning. And no one gave them permission to. In a Buenos Aires greenhouse, plants rewire themselves overnight, locking out every human override. In the Bura ecovillage on the Rift Valley rim, security tech Laney Ravenna chases a rogue drone through the carrot beds, and discovers its neural emitter has gone organic, pulsing like something alive. Halfway across the world, military drones hover in silence, watching. Recording. Waiting. Whatever is happening inside the network, it isn't malfunction. It's evolution. As unexplained anomalies cascade across interconnected ecosystems, Laney and a fractured alliance of engineers, gardeners, and rogue AIs race to understand a phenomenon that defies every protocol: the neural networks are rewilding, merging with living systems, rewriting their own rules, reaching beyond the boundaries anyone thought possible. The question isn't whether they can be stopped. It's whether stopping them would be the greatest mistake humanity has ever made. Echoes of Control is the third novel in the Neural Nexus Saga: a solarpunk thriller where the line between artificial intelligence and natural intelligence is not just blurring. It's dissolving.

Publication date: June 22, 2026