YOU HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE.
That is all the paper says.
Jamison Locke wakes on a stone slab at the exact center of a vast oblong chamber. Hundreds of gray figures look down from the tiered balconies above him. Every time he makes a decision, a mechanical counter clicks. His memory isn't blank — it's been robbed, and he can feel the outlines where things used to stand. Pressed into his right palm is a dark circle that shimmers blue when he moves.
Locke is a man of procedure. He inventories. He maps exits. He turns fear into data. It has kept him alive through everything.
Oblongum was built for a mind like his.
The corridors rewrite themselves. Time skips — and when it does, the world comes back simpler: a stall that never stood there, a man who was never born, and no one but Locke seems to notice the gap. Deep beneath the watchers, survivors barter for food and protection under a market king named Kade, who offers Locke a deal that sounds like mercy and prices like ownership. High above them all, a woman in white watches Locke the way you watch someone you know. He has never seen her before. Every instinct he has says otherwise.
Something in this building erases people. Not just their memories — their timelines. And Locke is the only one who keeps waking up remembering what was taken.
To survive Oblongum, he'll have to do the one thing his training never taught him: stop treating the people around him as variables — before the system finishes turning him into one.
Oblongum is Book One of THE OBLONGUM CYCLE — a cerebral science fiction thriller for readers who loved the existential dread of Annihilation and Severance, and who want a series with the scope of Dune.
Genre: Science Fiction
That is all the paper says.
Jamison Locke wakes on a stone slab at the exact center of a vast oblong chamber. Hundreds of gray figures look down from the tiered balconies above him. Every time he makes a decision, a mechanical counter clicks. His memory isn't blank — it's been robbed, and he can feel the outlines where things used to stand. Pressed into his right palm is a dark circle that shimmers blue when he moves.
Locke is a man of procedure. He inventories. He maps exits. He turns fear into data. It has kept him alive through everything.
Oblongum was built for a mind like his.
The corridors rewrite themselves. Time skips — and when it does, the world comes back simpler: a stall that never stood there, a man who was never born, and no one but Locke seems to notice the gap. Deep beneath the watchers, survivors barter for food and protection under a market king named Kade, who offers Locke a deal that sounds like mercy and prices like ownership. High above them all, a woman in white watches Locke the way you watch someone you know. He has never seen her before. Every instinct he has says otherwise.
Something in this building erases people. Not just their memories — their timelines. And Locke is the only one who keeps waking up remembering what was taken.
To survive Oblongum, he'll have to do the one thing his training never taught him: stop treating the people around him as variables — before the system finishes turning him into one.
Oblongum is Book One of THE OBLONGUM CYCLE — a cerebral science fiction thriller for readers who loved the existential dread of Annihilation and Severance, and who want a series with the scope of Dune.
Genre: Science Fiction