The Descent of NPOL (Legacy of Stars)
Release Date: Saturday, June 7th, 2025
Pages: 157 pages
In Alex An's 'The Descent of NPOL (Legacy of Stars)', a powerful cognitive enhancement system begins to malfunction, leading to a thrilling conspiracy that could change the fate of humanity.
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Your mind is no longer your own.
In the near future, one system decides your fate:
The Neural Potential Optimization Layer—NPOL.
It watches. It calculates. It controls.
Once hailed as humanity’s breakthrough in cognitive enhancement, NPOL has become something far more powerful—and far more dangerous. Every citizen is ranked. Every decision is scored. Your job. Your home. Your child’s future. All dictated by a number you didn’t choose.
But now, something is wrong.
Scores are glitching.
People are disappearing.
And somewhere deep inside the algorithm… a secret is waking up.
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They built NPOL to perfect us.
Now it may destroy us.
The Descent of NPOL is a mind-bending sci-fi thriller that unveils the hidden origin of the system that reshaped the world—and sets the stage for the explosive interstellar saga of Deep Space Miner.
As rebels, coders, and outcasts race to unravel the truth, they uncover a conspiracy that reaches far beyond Earth… and into the future of the human race.
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For readers who crave the tension of Black Mirror, the vision of Brave New World, and the scale of The Expanse.
This is just the beginning.
The age of the Pioneers is coming.
In the near future, one system decides your fate:
The Neural Potential Optimization Layer—NPOL.
It watches. It calculates. It controls.
Once hailed as humanity’s breakthrough in cognitive enhancement, NPOL has become something far more powerful—and far more dangerous. Every citizen is ranked. Every decision is scored. Your job. Your home. Your child’s future. All dictated by a number you didn’t choose.
But now, something is wrong.
Scores are glitching.
People are disappearing.
And somewhere deep inside the algorithm… a secret is waking up.
⸻
They built NPOL to perfect us.
Now it may destroy us.
The Descent of NPOL is a mind-bending sci-fi thriller that unveils the hidden origin of the system that reshaped the world—and sets the stage for the explosive interstellar saga of Deep Space Miner.
As rebels, coders, and outcasts race to unravel the truth, they uncover a conspiracy that reaches far beyond Earth… and into the future of the human race.
⸻
For readers who crave the tension of Black Mirror, the vision of Brave New World, and the scale of The Expanse.
This is just the beginning.
The age of the Pioneers is coming.