Reality is a battlefield. Identity is a weapon. Connection is the sanctuary.
Hiro is a street-smart survivor in the decaying Old Town, despising everything the CerebroNet, the AI governing New London, stands for. He has only one goal: survive the machines.
It’s a perilous dance, hunting CerebroNet's hover-droids for a living while trying to stay one step ahead of the ruthless Cybergangs. But when a routine hunt goes horribly wrong, he and his friend are dragged into a world of secrets about the pyrozetton — a device linked to a parallel universe and giving CerebroNet its computing power.
A near-fatal encounter with a malfunctioning hover-droid and a rescue by his sworn enemy—CerebroNet, turns Hiro's world upside down. Why would the all-powerful AI save the life of a tech-hating outcast?
To uncover the truth about his real past and future, Hiro is forced into unlikely alliances. When he is manipulated and turned into a weapon, he must navigate a treacherous landscape of shifting alliances and deadly betrayals. But the truth turns out to be more valuable—and more dangerous—than any tech from a parallel universe.
If you crave cyberpunk with heart and high stakes—where conspiracies span parallel universes and friendship is the only code that can't be hacked—The Birth of Cogenant was written for you.
