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Scrap Logic: Book 2 of the Deconstructed Series
“Some truths are buried. Others are sealed.”
In the decaying corridors beneath Virelia, Kaine Voss searches for rare earth materials—but what he finds is something else entirely.
An enforcer drone, shattered and half-alive.
A voice, fragmented and female.
And a core—still pulsing with the last memory of what it used to be.
Scrap Book 2 continues the dark, introspective journey of a man caught between obedience and awakening. Kaine is no rebel—not yet. He hides behind the quiet rituals of engineering, surviving within a society that demands conformity from those like him. But the deeper he tunnels beneath the city’s controlled surface, the more he uncovers of a forgotten of discarded technologies, erased histories, and the whisper of rebellion encoded in broken machines.
When Kaine salvages the damaged AI core of an outlawed enforcer, something shifts. He doesn’t just restore it—he redefines it. Piece by piece, voice by voice, he begins to rebuild what the city had silenced. What emerges isn’t just technology. It’s sentience. And it knows his name.
In a world designed to erase identity, Kaine is rebuilding one from the ruins.
As the AI evolves, so too does Kaine’s understanding of the system he lives under—and the forces that monitor, manipulate, and erase any trace of dissent. What he’s repairing may be the very thing that breaks him open. Or sets him free.
Scrap Logic is not a tale of uprising. It is the slow ignition of one.
This second volume in the Deconstructed series deepens its Afro-Futurist world, blending elegant prose with cinematic imagery and philosophical undertones. With a voice as haunting as it is human, this book
• AI reprogramming and identity
• Isolation, memory, and control
• Quiet resistance within systems of power
• The transformation of voice—from tool, to person, to presence
For readers who
– “The Broken Earth” trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
– “Excession” by Iain M. Banks
– “The Memory Librarian” by Janelle Monáe
– Psychological sci-fi with sociopolitical bite
Every broken circuit remembers. Every silence speaks. And somewhere inside the scrap... the future waits to be reassembled.
In the decaying corridors beneath Virelia, Kaine Voss searches for rare earth materials—but what he finds is something else entirely.
An enforcer drone, shattered and half-alive.
A voice, fragmented and female.
And a core—still pulsing with the last memory of what it used to be.
Scrap Book 2 continues the dark, introspective journey of a man caught between obedience and awakening. Kaine is no rebel—not yet. He hides behind the quiet rituals of engineering, surviving within a society that demands conformity from those like him. But the deeper he tunnels beneath the city’s controlled surface, the more he uncovers of a forgotten of discarded technologies, erased histories, and the whisper of rebellion encoded in broken machines.
When Kaine salvages the damaged AI core of an outlawed enforcer, something shifts. He doesn’t just restore it—he redefines it. Piece by piece, voice by voice, he begins to rebuild what the city had silenced. What emerges isn’t just technology. It’s sentience. And it knows his name.
In a world designed to erase identity, Kaine is rebuilding one from the ruins.
As the AI evolves, so too does Kaine’s understanding of the system he lives under—and the forces that monitor, manipulate, and erase any trace of dissent. What he’s repairing may be the very thing that breaks him open. Or sets him free.
Scrap Logic is not a tale of uprising. It is the slow ignition of one.
This second volume in the Deconstructed series deepens its Afro-Futurist world, blending elegant prose with cinematic imagery and philosophical undertones. With a voice as haunting as it is human, this book
• AI reprogramming and identity
• Isolation, memory, and control
• Quiet resistance within systems of power
• The transformation of voice—from tool, to person, to presence
For readers who
– “The Broken Earth” trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
– “Excession” by Iain M. Banks
– “The Memory Librarian” by Janelle Monáe
– Psychological sci-fi with sociopolitical bite
Every broken circuit remembers. Every silence speaks. And somewhere inside the scrap... the future waits to be reassembled.
65 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 23, 2025
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April 26, 2025
What seemed to comes across as better delivery was here, more so than in Book One. However, I still came away feeling as if I was anchored by the overly-detailed pages. There is no question the author knows how to write well. After all, the developing A. I. that is the focus of this book draws attention and a bit of concern (though not as much for Sable as there is for Kaine).
I simply cannot help thinking, "Couldn't we have moved past this a little more quickly?"
I am sure there will be many who will find delight in the crafted descriptions as the creator of an intelligence becomes a subject of interest for the same intelligence. Kaine makes it so that Sable can think, but he is not altogether comfortable with her thinking.
I am curious to know what comes next but I do not feel I will be able to devote the necessary time to pour into the slow-paced storytelling.
I simply cannot help thinking, "Couldn't we have moved past this a little more quickly?"
I am sure there will be many who will find delight in the crafted descriptions as the creator of an intelligence becomes a subject of interest for the same intelligence. Kaine makes it so that Sable can think, but he is not altogether comfortable with her thinking.
I am curious to know what comes next but I do not feel I will be able to devote the necessary time to pour into the slow-paced storytelling.
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