Synopsis
Kane Lewis is a brilliant coder born without sight. When he becomes one of the first recipients of OptiLink, a neural-vision implant built by Glimpse Inc. and its shadow partner CyberTech, he sees the world for the first time, rendered in stunning dynamic overlays. But sight comes at a price. Inside the feed Kane starts finding things that should not be there: manipulations buried in the visual layer, emotional triggers, behaviour-shaping algorithms. Glimpse's miracle is a tool of mass control. What begins as a fight for his own autonomy becomes a mission to free millions from a corporate-engineered digital prison.
- Author
- Matt Locke
- Genre
- Techno-thriller
- Length
- 346 pages
- Published
- Editions
- Hardcover, paperback, Kindle
- Series
- Standalone
- Language
- English
- ISBN (paperback)
- 979-8277739709
Kane's descent.
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Born outside the system
Kane Lewis is a brilliant coder born without sight, living outside the OptiLink network that connects every sighted person to a curated reality.
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The implant
An experimental OptiLink implant grants him vision for the first time. He doesn't just see the world. He sees the code that constructs it.
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The discovery
OptiLink isn't showing people the world. It's shaping what they believe, feel and want. Neural advertising. Behaviour modification. A prison with no walls.
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The only one who can see
Born blind, then given sight by the very system he now suspects, Kane is uniquely placed to expose it. But the algorithm knows he's watching.
They gave him sight.
A thriller built on one question: if the images reaching your brain are a product someone else configures, what exactly is left of free will?
In a world where everyone is connected to the OptiLink neural network, privacy is a myth and perception is a commodity sold to the highest bidder. Kane Lewis, a brilliant coder born without sight, has always lived outside the system.
But when an experimental implant grants him vision, he doesn't just see the world: he sees the code that constructs it. Glitches in reality. Subliminal commands. A digital prison built to enslave the mind.
Read onMild spoilers
Kane's position, born blind and then given sight through OptiLink, means he can perceive the system's architecture in a way nobody else can. As he digs, he finds that OptiLink doesn't just show you the world, it tells you how to feel about it. Neural advertising overlays. Hormonal regulation. Mandatory reality filtering. The deeper he goes, the more dangerous he becomes to the system, and the harder it works to find him.
Who's in it.
Kane Lewis
A brilliant coder born without sight, and one of the first people to receive OptiLink. His background in code is what lets him read the feed as a system.
Emily King
Part of the small circle supporting Kane as he digs into what OptiLink is really doing.
Apollo
Kane's service dog and constant companion. No firmware, no feed, no overlay.
What it's really about.
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Digital surveillance
The OptiLink network doesn't just monitor what you see. It monitors how you feel about it. Every emotional response is logged and fed back to optimise your behaviour. The panopticon is inside your head.
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Neural manipulation
If they edit what you see, they edit what you believe. The implant can rewrite memory, inject commands and manufacture desire. Sometimes blindness is a choice, and sometimes sight is a burden.
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Identity erosion
When your preferences are algorithmic and your dreams are sponsored content, what remains of the self? Eye See follows the erasure of a person when perception is commercially optimised.
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False reality
The world is beautiful. The world is perfect. The world is a fabrication, a managed interface sold to the highest bidder. Kane is the only one who can see the seams.
Books like Eye See.
It's a debut, so there are no press quotes yet. Here is the company it keeps. If these are on your shelf, this one belongs beside them.
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Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
A propulsive, high-concept thriller that runs on one impossible premise and never lets the pace drop.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Control exercised not by force but by editing the record of what is true.
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The Circle
Dave Eggers
A benign-sounding tech company, a product everyone loves, and the slow realisation of what it costs.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Perception as the unreliable narrator. What happens when your senses are the thing being tampered with.
Reading it as a group?
Ten discussion questions for book clubs and classrooms, and Matt will join a call where he can.
Book club guideA debut lives or dies on its first fifty reviews.
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