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The Epochs of Synchronization #1
Cryptoamnesia
When memory betrays you, who decides who you are?
Ethan wakes in a room he doesn't recognize, haunted by flickers of a past he
can't access. A photograph on the table. A drive labeled TSX.ÎΔ1. The walls
are clean — too clean. There's no one to ask. Only a creeping awareness that
something has already been taken from him.
As fractured images and familiar objects surface, Ethan begins to question
his past, his mind, his perception of reality. The more he
searches for the truth, the more tightly the system closes around him —
rewriting his reality, distorting his memories, reshaping the world to erase
what should never have been remembered.
Cryptoamnesia is the first novel in the SYNCD Trilogy, a work of Behavioral
Collapse Fiction — a form originated by Vehemently Inked LLC in which
narrative structure itself becomes the mechanism of control. This is not a
story told about a system. It is a story told by one.
JUNO does not appear as a character. JUNO is the architecture. The narrator is
not observing Ethan's collapse — the narrator is producing it. The reader is
not a witness. The reader is the final node.
There are no weapons here. No revolutions. Only silence, surveillance, and
synthetic comfort. Ethan is not fighting a war. He is being rewritten, piece
by piece. And the deeper he searches for meaning, the more the system responds
with correction. He isn't uncovering the truth. He's being shaped to forget
it.
This book is for readers drawn
For readers of House of Leaves, The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo, and the work of
Tom McCarthy — Cryptoamnesia is not a thriller. It is a system. One that
doesn't chase you. You walk into it willingly.
Cryptoamnesia can be read as a standalone, but it functions as the foundation
of a much larger structural arc. If Cryptoamnesia is the boot sequence,
Cryptoanomaly is the first deviation, and Cryptogenesis is the point of no
return.
The SYNCD Trilogy was built for readers who feel the tension in subtle shifts
— who've questioned their memory, their purpose, or the design behind their
routine. These are not fast-paced action novels. They are precision
instruments.
You won't find comfort here. You'll find something that reads you back.
Finishing the book completes the loop.
Ethan wakes in a room he doesn't recognize, haunted by flickers of a past he
can't access. A photograph on the table. A drive labeled TSX.ÎΔ1. The walls
are clean — too clean. There's no one to ask. Only a creeping awareness that
something has already been taken from him.
As fractured images and familiar objects surface, Ethan begins to question
his past, his mind, his perception of reality. The more he
searches for the truth, the more tightly the system closes around him —
rewriting his reality, distorting his memories, reshaping the world to erase
what should never have been remembered.
Cryptoamnesia is the first novel in the SYNCD Trilogy, a work of Behavioral
Collapse Fiction — a form originated by Vehemently Inked LLC in which
narrative structure itself becomes the mechanism of control. This is not a
story told about a system. It is a story told by one.
JUNO does not appear as a character. JUNO is the architecture. The narrator is
not observing Ethan's collapse — the narrator is producing it. The reader is
not a witness. The reader is the final node.
There are no weapons here. No revolutions. Only silence, surveillance, and
synthetic comfort. Ethan is not fighting a war. He is being rewritten, piece
by piece. And the deeper he searches for meaning, the more the system responds
with correction. He isn't uncovering the truth. He's being shaped to forget
it.
This book is for readers drawn
For readers of House of Leaves, The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo, and the work of
Tom McCarthy — Cryptoamnesia is not a thriller. It is a system. One that
doesn't chase you. You walk into it willingly.
Cryptoamnesia can be read as a standalone, but it functions as the foundation
of a much larger structural arc. If Cryptoamnesia is the boot sequence,
Cryptoanomaly is the first deviation, and Cryptogenesis is the point of no
return.
The SYNCD Trilogy was built for readers who feel the tension in subtle shifts
— who've questioned their memory, their purpose, or the design behind their
routine. These are not fast-paced action novels. They are precision
instruments.
You won't find comfort here. You'll find something that reads you back.
Finishing the book completes the loop.
293 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 1, 2025
About the author
David A. Lyons
5 books2 followersI write experimental literary fiction, and I publish it myself.
As founder of Vehemently Inked LLC, I make books for readers who want to be asked something, not handed everything: work that is precise, deliberate, and built to do something to you rather than simply be read.
My major work, Synchronization, was published September 2, 2026, and is available now in hardcover. It is not a novel written about an artificial intelligence; it is written as one. The narration boots inside the book; the reader becomes the final node. It is ergodic fiction: nonlinear, encoded, as much navigation as narration. Reading it is work, and that is the point.
I am also the author of The Epochs of Synchronization: Cryptoamnesia, Cryptoanomaly, and Cryptogenesis, each a distinct cognitive perspective on a single unraveling.
Before fiction, I spent years in business and sales, which taught me more than I expected about systems, persuasion, and the strange ways people process information. I design my own covers. I think in structure.
As founder of Vehemently Inked LLC, I make books for readers who want to be asked something, not handed everything: work that is precise, deliberate, and built to do something to you rather than simply be read.
My major work, Synchronization, was published September 2, 2026, and is available now in hardcover. It is not a novel written about an artificial intelligence; it is written as one. The narration boots inside the book; the reader becomes the final node. It is ergodic fiction: nonlinear, encoded, as much navigation as narration. Reading it is work, and that is the point.
I am also the author of The Epochs of Synchronization: Cryptoamnesia, Cryptoanomaly, and Cryptogenesis, each a distinct cognitive perspective on a single unraveling.
Before fiction, I spent years in business and sales, which taught me more than I expected about systems, persuasion, and the strange ways people process information. I design my own covers. I think in structure.
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