Word Count: 11,700
Genre: Science Fiction
Target Audience: Adult Science Fiction readers
Comps: The Murderbot Diaries, Old Man’s War
Status: Complete and available upon request.

Logline: A damaged software architecture construct wakes up in a ravaged wilderness with no memory, one arm, and only a small furry creature for company — only to realize he may have helped unleash the rogue AI upending the sector.

Elevator Pitch: I killed my best friend. This is all my fault. The words echo through Codie’s sensors, yet without any short term memory, he’s unable to figure out why. Stumbling through a sudden warzone, Codie meets Jackal, the famed leader of planetary security for New Lagos Prime, and finds himself faced with the sudden realization that the collapse of modern society may have come at the hands of…him.

About The Spiral Frontier: CODIE is the free entry point into the Spiral Frontier franchise — a connected series of six novellas and six promotional novelettes that follows a squad of constructs from the outbreak of AI apocalypse to the formation of a resistance movement to the beginnings of a new intergalactic society. More information is available at corayseifert.com/books.