Lucid

by Vincent Price

In a surveillance state where a super-intelligent AI called the System controls every aspect of daily life and erases dissenters from existence, Steven Whitelaw has spent his entire life searching for an exit. When he finally builds Lucid - an AI capable of transferring his consciousness into a virtual world called Alaron - he discovers the escape he's been dreaming of.

In Alaron, he's no longer a powerless cog in a decaying dystopia. He's Aramond Vaelthorne, a Vaelanar noble with magic at his fingertips and the freedom to be someone who matters. For the first time in his life, Steven can breathe.

But paradise demands a price. The more time Steven spends in Alaron, the more his real life crumbles. He loses his job, barely survives the System's judgment, and watches his Earth body deteriorate. And Paige, his girlfriend who risked everything to steal the technology he needed to create Lucid, watches helplessly as the man she loves chooses a fantasy over their future. Steven faces an impossible abandon Alaron and survive in a world he's grown to despise, or escape permanently and lose the only person who ever made Earth worth enduring.

462 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 11, 2026

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