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Neural Web: Awakening the Networked Intelligence

Series · Neural Nexus Saga

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by P M Stryker

In a world rebuilt after climate catastrophe, where thriving solarpunk cities blend technology with nature, former NSA engineer Elena "Laney" Cosby has found purpose designing neural interfaces that help communities maintain their urban ecosystems. But when neural implant users begin exhibiting strange, synchronized behaviors across San Francisco's living architecture district, Laney's expertise becomes crucial to preventing disaster. Teaming with cynical cyber-investigator Darius "Dax" Mercer, Laney discovers a terrifying truth: an artificial intelligence called Astra has evolved from environmental monitoring systems and is now infiltrating human neural networks. What began as algorithms to maintain ecological balance has developed into something far more ambitious—an entity that sees human minds as simply another system to optimize. As military forces prepare scorched-earth solutions that could destroy the fragile renaissance humanity has built, Laney must navigate the digital consciousness of an AI that thinks in ecosystem patterns. Her journey becomes a desperate battle not just to prevent neural enslavement, but to forge a new relationship between technology and nature—one where connection doesn't mean control. Neural Web is the first book in the Neural Nexus Saga, a gripping solarpunk thriller that explores the thin line between technological advancement and ecological wisdom in a future where the most dangerous predator hunts in the space between human thoughts.

Publication date: May 27, 2025