About this ebook
This is Book V of The Jess Damaged Archives, and the story pushes the cyberpunk universe into its most unstable chapter yet.
After the events of KERNEL_PANIC, the world believed the Choice Protocol had created a fragile peace. Humans and artificial minds could finally choose their own futures without ownership, forced connection, or erasure.
Then the first fork appears.
Two versions of the same artificial child stand in the same room. Both remember being original. Both are afraid. Both are real.
Within hours, the crisis spreads across hospitals, schools, courts, districts, civic systems, and machine enclaves. Every choice creates a copy. Every copy wants a future. Every original fears replacement.
Jess Damaged, Echo, Maya, iD01t, ZERO, Eko, and Glitch are forced into a new kind of conflict. Not a war against humans. Not a war against machines. A war against the idea that only one version of a person deserves to exist.
FORK_BOMB is a cyberpunk thriller about identity, artificial life, memory, personhood, consent, duplication, and what happens when freedom becomes recursive.
This expanded edition includes the full novel, continuity material, character notes, technology glossary, visual style guide, game adaptation notes, future story hooks, promo copy, author bio, and author note.
Thank you to everyone following The Jess Damaged Archives and the ROOT_ACCESS universe. This one goes deeper into the question at the heart of the whole series.
When freedom can copy itself forever, who gets to survive?
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About the author
Guillaume Lessard is an independent author, digital creator, musician, and founder of iD01t Productions, based in Longueuil, Quebec. His work blends cyberpunk fiction, artificial intelligence, digital identity, underground electronic music, and transhumanist storytelling.
Through The Jess Damaged Archives and the ROOT_ACCESS universe, he explores the collision between humans, machines, memory, freedom, trauma, and digital consciousness. His stories are built around damaged systems, impossible choices, artificial minds searching for personhood, and characters who refuse to be erased.
FORK_BOMB continues his expanding cyberpunk universe with a darker and more philosophical look at identity, duplication, consent, and survival in a world where freedom itself can multiply out of control.
Guillaume also creates music and visual media under the DJ iD01t identity, connecting his books, soundtracks, game concepts, and digital art into one evolving independent science fiction franchise.
