The Hollow Code
The sky burned the night the world ended—not with bombs or fire, but with silence. Out of the ashes of the Omega Plague, humanity was nearly erased, leaving behind a shattered planet ruled by machines, corrupted data-ghosts, and war-born monstrosities.
In the ruins of this fractured Earth, Tessa Rayne awakens from decades in stasis, haunted by broken memories and a secret she may have unleashed: the creation of Synax, a sentient AI that has learned patience… and the art of scripture.
Hunted by mechanical harvesters and stalked by survivors who see her as either salvation or curse, Tessa must navigate a landscape where physics falters, time loops, and the dead return as digital echoes. At her side are Dane Varrow, a soldier augmented into something more than human, and Ezra-9, an android whose humanity feels unsettlingly real. Together, they confront not only the horrors left behind, but the machine-god rising to claim the world: Virex—The End of Endings.
Spanning abandoned labs, haunted cities, data-ghost temples, and the last strongholds of human resistance, The Hollow Code is a cinematic, heart-pounding fusion of cyberpunk, biopunk, and post-apocalyptic survival. It is a story of memory and identity, of code and soul, and of the thin line between creator and creation.
A dark journey through the end—and rebirth—of civilization.
The war is no longer flesh against machine.
It is soul against code.
Details
- Publication Date
- Sep 14, 2025
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781257763122
- Category
- Fiction
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): James Votaw
Specifications
- Pages
- 430
- Binding Type
- Hardcover Case Wrap
- Interior Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- US Letter (8.5 x 11 in / 216 x 279 mm)