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Latency
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Expected 29 Nov 26Every journey leaves someone behind.
In 2047, distance no longer matters. The Lattice can disassemble a human being, transmit the pattern and reconstruct the passenger eleven seconds later at any connected destination. Ordinary. Certified. Repeated billions of times every week.
Every journey is recorded. Every arrival is verified. The system works because the records agree.
Until they don’t.
When an impossible discrepancy surfaces inside the world’s most trusted infrastructure, International Lattice Authority investigator Orla Quill finds herself confronting a question its creators believed they had already answered. If the person who arrives possesses your memories, loves the people you loved and believes completely that they are you, what would count as proof?
Her investigation leads to a part of the Lattice no passenger was ever meant to see. Buried inside it is evidence of journeys that should not exist, identities that cannot be reconciled and lives the system has no language to acknowledge.
Latency is a literary science-fiction thriller about identity, artificial intelligence and the institutions we trust to tell us what is real. It is a near-future mystery where the technology may be extraordinary, but the consequences are entirely human.
In 2047, distance no longer matters. The Lattice can disassemble a human being, transmit the pattern and reconstruct the passenger eleven seconds later at any connected destination. Ordinary. Certified. Repeated billions of times every week.
Every journey is recorded. Every arrival is verified. The system works because the records agree.
Until they don’t.
When an impossible discrepancy surfaces inside the world’s most trusted infrastructure, International Lattice Authority investigator Orla Quill finds herself confronting a question its creators believed they had already answered. If the person who arrives possesses your memories, loves the people you loved and believes completely that they are you, what would count as proof?
Her investigation leads to a part of the Lattice no passenger was ever meant to see. Buried inside it is evidence of journeys that should not exist, identities that cannot be reconciled and lives the system has no language to acknowledge.
Latency is a literary science-fiction thriller about identity, artificial intelligence and the institutions we trust to tell us what is real. It is a near-future mystery where the technology may be extraordinary, but the consequences are entirely human.
840 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication November 29, 2026
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