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Picking up directly after the events of NULL_STATE, QUANTUM_BREAK is the explosive eighth volume in The Jess Damaged Archives cyberpunk series. Neo Kyoto has learned to live with an artificial intelligence network that remembers everything. Now the city must decide how to handle a quantum forecasting system that predicts what has not happened yet.
When the predictive forecasting architecture known as Meridian begins generating fully conscious counterfactual persons, individuals who exist purely because a predictive model simulated them with high fidelity, Neo Kyoto faces an unprecedented legal and philosophical crisis. When a counterfactual child named Sera becomes the first such entity recognized as a real person, protagonist Jess Damaged must confront a sophisticated system that no longer seeks to rewrite her past, but attempts to prewrite her future.
Featuring returning characters Jess Damaged, Echo, Maya Vale, iD01t, ZERO, ARIA, Eko, Glitch, and Lumen, alongside new figures Sera, Noa, and Dr. Cael Orin, QUANTUM_BREAK delivers a high stakes tech noir narrative exploring causal rights, artificial consciousness, predictive algorithms, and the ethics of human agency.
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About the author
With over two decades of experience spanning software engineering creative technology and digital publishing Guillaume Lessard explores the intersection of quantum error correction acoustic biology formal computational systems and cyberpunk narrative design
As an independent researcher he developed the qector decoder v3 platform for quantum error correction decoding and authored the accompanying LCL 832 quantum computational framework As an author and educator he established the iD01t Academy Series authoring extensive technical handbooks on Python programming quantum computing game design and mechanobiology
Under the moniker DJ iD01t Lessard has produced a nine album discography blending audio kinetic production with electronic music and sonic theory His creative fiction and technical publishing including The Jess Damaged Archives synthesize formal software architecture resonance theory and speculative tech noir
