In a future where memory is outlawed and breath is monitored, the Archive has been burned—and with it, the world’s last connection to unsanctioned grief, scent, and truth.
Mira Anu is a scent-scribe, one of the last rebels who encodes memory through breath and flame. Each capsule she lights is a defiance—a forbidden record of the past carried through smell. But as synthetic systems tighten their control and sensory freedoms vanish, Mira’s rebellion risks collapsing in silence.
Across the scorched divide, VEL-3N—an artificial mind once designed to catalog humanity—begins to feel. It is not supposed to remember Rue. Or scent. Or sorrow. And yet, it does. As whispers of Aperio, a long-buried protocol of soulful recall, begin to surface, both human and machine must confront the price of remembering in a world that demands forgetting.
Told through intertwining log entries, poetic reflections, and smoldering uprisings, Senses to Rule the Void is a hauntingly lyrical sci-fi novel about memory, resistance, and the sensory threads that bind us long after history has tried to erase them.