Echoes of the neXt

Tales of the Technomancer's Rise

By: KaCee Bunn-Smith

Narrated by: Rush Stone

In a fractured future where memory is currency and signal is sacred, the world shudders beneath the ghost-code of its own forgotten past.

Ten years after she vanished, Gloria Carter—now called Glow—reawakens into a world rewritten by recursion. She carries something no one else does: a pure shard of Pandora’s original signal, untainted and impossibly alive. Hunted by the Crimson Grid and haunted by versions of herself that never lived, Glow must navigate a collapsing reality where every choice echoes through time like a loaded question.

Beside her stands Exodus, a man who once ran from truth but now speaks for it. Behind them: Chaos, the guilt-scorched architect of rebellion. Ahead of them: Redshift, the corrupted torchbearer of enforced evolution. And in the ruins of cities rebuilt from code, the neXt waits—not as salvation, but as recursion unchained.

From blacksite bunkers and dream corridors to signal-warped cathedrals and digital voids that remember too much, Echoes of the neXt is a mind-bending techno-myth—part cyberpunk odyssey, part philosophical thriller.

What happens when memory becomes a weapon, prophecy breaks, and identity is the battleground?

She doesn’t want to be a god.
She just wants to remember who chose to forget.

©2025 KaCee Bunn-Smith (P)2025 KaCee Bunn-Smith

2 hours

I don’t know if it’s because I don’t understand what’s going on or can’t take the narrator’s voice. Mispronouncing Britain as bright-in… and the writes favorite thing to do is write “not (blank )or (blank) but (blank)” . If I had the urge to finish this I’d make it a game and count them out… but I can’t do it.

Is the singularity a two way road?

I'm sitting at a computer, flat screen, bright, crisp; contemplating my review, succinct, descriptive; and how it will be received, questioned, provoked; after completing Echoes of the neXt, listened, pondered, irritated. The writing style is choppy, viscous, staccato as we meet the main characters humanoid, android, digital and they proceed to recover humanity's lost memories, echoes, fragments. Flavors of Matrix, Tron, Ghost in the Shell are sprinkled, dashed, layered throughout as is a sensation of trudging through wind, fog, wet sand navigating one chapter to the neXt. Codex likely needed for decryption and processing. Narration by Rush Stone excellent considering challenging source material. [Disclosure: I received this title for free and listened at 2.0x.]