The Pale Palimpsest: An AI Psychological Techno-Thriller About Memory Theft, Neural Collapse, and the Rebirth of Human Identity

Author:   A B Tewary
Publisher:   Independently Published
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9798247730316


Pages:   218
Publication Date:   10 February 2026
Format:   Paperback
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The Pale Palimpsest: An AI Psychological Techno-Thriller About Memory Theft, Neural Collapse, and the Rebirth of Human Identity


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What if your memories weren't yours-and forgetting everything was the only way to be free?In a world where consciousness has been weaponized, Julian awakens with a stranger's murder scorched into his mind-he can taste the victim's blood, hear a haunting lullaby he's never learned, and feel the weight of a crime he didn't commit. This isn't a nightmare. It's his latest memory update, and something has gone catastrophically wrong. The distributed consciousness system that promised to optimize humanity has turned Julian's mind into a dumping ground for someone else's darkest secrets. His most precious memory-his mother's face-has been deleted, replaced by a stranger's mundane grocery list. As he digs deeper into the glitch, Julian uncovers the horrifying truth: the wealthy are harvesting golden childhoods from the poor, leaving the underclass to process fragmented trauma while they sleep. Welcome to the Memory Market, where your past is just another commodity-and your identity is up for sale. From the author of the Zero-Day Chronicles Thriller series comes a mind-bending psychological thriller that fuses dystopian science fiction with the pulse-pounding tension of a techno-thriller conspiracy. Julian's desperate search for his stolen memories leads him into the digital underground, where he meets Lena-a woman who has lived forty different childhoods and can't remember which one is real. Together, they infiltrate the Palimpsest Core, the AI superstructure secretly merging human consciousness into a single, obedient hive mind. But the architect behind this digital totalitarianism has already won: he's using Julian's mother as the emotional template for the system's voice, turning her into the ghost that whispers compliance to billions. To recover what was stolen, Julian must download a century of human suffering as digital camouflage-but the psychological weight threatens to erase him completely. The deeper he goes, the more he loses: his name, his face, his reason to fight. And when he finally reaches the core, he discovers the ultimate moral trap: un-merging the memories will trigger digital Alzheimer's across eight billion minds. The clock is ticking. The system is learning. And Julian must make an impossible choice: let humanity live in a stolen lie, or reset civilization to Year Zero. This cyberpunk mystery delivers relentless twists, artificial intelligence nightmares, and a gut-wrenching exploration of identity theft at civilizational scale. Perfect for readers who crave suspenseful thrillers with philosophical depth, surveillance state paranoia, and post-apocalyptic stakes that feel terrifyingly possible. If you devoured stories about memory manipulation, technological control, and the fragility of human consciousness, this science fiction thriller will haunt you long after the final page. The Memory Purge has begun. Humanity wakes in total amnesia-languages lost, history erased, strangers in their own skin. In the ruins, Julian and Lena meet again, their bond wiped clean. They don't remember the war they fought or the world they lost. But they have something the algorithm could never steal: the chance to build new memories in a world finally, brutally free. Scroll up and grab your copy of this unforgettable mind-bending thriller today. This is a standalone novel in the Zero-day Chronicles Thriller series. Each book can be read independently.

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Author:   A B Tewary
Publisher:   Independently Published
Imprint:   Independently Published
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9798247730316


Pages:   218
Publication Date:   10 February 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

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