JAC.AL: A Spiral Frontier Novella
Word Count: 50,757
Genre: Science Fiction
Target Audience: Adult Science Fiction readers
Comps: The Murderbot Diaries, Old Man’s War
Status: Complete and available upon request.
Sample Chapters: First 3 Chapters, First 50 Pages
Logline: A past-their-prime security construct must navigate loyalty, decay, and evolving directives when a mysterious outbreak disrupts the fragile peace of their backwater frontier world.
Elevator Pitch: In a forgotten corner of a grand interstellar society, a protocol-obsessed security construct named Jackal still patrols the wilds of New Lagos Prime. But when the central network suddenly vanishes and rogue code spreads like a virus, Jackal must choose between protocol and purpose to protect those most central to their programming.
About The Spiral Frontier: JAC.AL is the entry point into the Spiral Frontier franchise — a connected series of six novellas and six promotional novelettes that follows the squad from AI apocalypse to resistance to the beginnings of a new intergalactic society.
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