The Forest is Woven
Echoes in the Aether
A literary speculative novel about perception, control, and the hidden networks that survive beneath systems that are built to marginalize dissenting views.
In a near-future city governed by augmentation technology architecture, wellness systems, and predictive control, Elias begins noticing patterns the system was designed to ignore.
When he is hired to analyze the writings of a young woman whose unique connection to the information aether was classified as malfunction, Elias becomes part of a quiet, distributed network of people mapping the ways around a technological society optimized for compliance.
What begins as a contract to perform analysis on records from 70 years prior becomes a record of resistance, carried through fragments, buried channels, and minds the architecture couldn't force to comply.
A novel in final revision. Beta readers welcome.