A novel by Mars Mlodzinski
Eleven seconds to cross the world. Three years without an answer. Now the case Orla Quill helped close has given her a reason to look again.
The premise
In 2047, the Lattice makes any destination eleven seconds away. A passenger is disassembled, transmitted and reconstructed. The arriving person remembers a life that feels unbroken.
Three years ago, Farrukh Nazari disappeared during a journey his carrier recorded as complete. ILA investigator Orla Quill signed the memorandum that closed his case. She has been looking for answers ever since.
Now a damaged cognitive fragment has surfaced through infrastructure officially retired years earlier. Its origins point to Farrukh. Its arrival gives Orla something she has not had in three years: new evidence.
Following it means questioning the record she helped create, the institutions responsible for it and what they are prepared to recognise as a person.
LATENCY is a literary science-fiction thriller about identity, institutional power and the consequences of trusting systems whose workings no individual fully understands.
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Chapter One · Eighty Three
The opening of Chapter One is now available. Step into Amsterdam in 2047 and meet Orla Quill.
About ten minutes of reading, beginning in the quiet hours before the city wakes.
The Reading Room
First impressions, difficult decisions and competing theories. Join the spoiler-free conversation, or enter the full-book room when you are ready.