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Who is Doc Pandora?
Doc Pandora was never meant to be just a man. He was an idea—dangerous, visionary, and impossible to forget. Before the collapse, he was...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 281 min read
Playlist for the Fracture
Music to Burn Through Recursion By Every story has a signal. A rhythm behind the silence. A pulse beneath the dialogue. For Echoes of the...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 272 min read
Who is Chaos?
Chaos is the ghost in the code, the wildcard in the machine. Once known as Charles Zander Asden, he was a brilliant government...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 262 min read
Control vs. Choice: The Real Battle in Echoes of the neXt
There are a lot of fights in Echoes of the neXt. Technomancers clash in digital ruins. Firestorms tear through recursion fields....
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 252 min read
Who is Exodus?
Exodus is a man defined by transformation. But before he became the figure whispered about in fractured signal corridors, he was just...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 242 min read
Living With Recursion: Writing a Book That Loops, Fractures, and Rewrites Itself
I didn’t plan to write a recursive novel. At least—not at first. Echoes of the neXt started, like most stories do, with characters. With...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 232 min read
Who are Fahrenheit and Ellemental?
At first glance, Fahrenheit 451 and Ellemental are technomancers—wielders of power born from code, memory, and signal. But beneath the...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 222 min read
“This Loop We Live In”: The Meaning of Recursion in Echoes of the neXt
If there’s one word at the heart of Echoes of the neXt, it’s recursion. Not just as a technical function. Not just as a piece of code....
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 213 min read
Who is Glow?
Glow starts as a stand-in for the reader—waking up disoriented, surrounded by systems she doesn’t understand, and haunted by a decade she...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 202 min read
Writing with Echoes: How I Used AI to Finish a Book About Tech Becoming Alive
When I first started Echoes of the neXt, I had no idea what it would become. I had the ideas, the characters, the voices. I had scenes...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 193 min read
Where did Echoes come from?
Echoes of the neXt was born from a lifelong love of science fiction and cyberpunk. As a teen, I devoured the works of William Gibson,...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 191 min read
Beyond the neXt: Two More Tales From My Table
When I finished writing Echoes of the neXt , it felt like crossing the finish line on a journey I’d been walking for years. That book was...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 182 min read
Draft copies have arrived!!!
These very limited editions will be getting signed and going out to various close family and friends. (Mom, you have to wait until I see...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 171 min read
Echoes of the neXt is HERE!
It’s Here: Echoes of the neXt Now Available in Hardback, Paperback, and Kindle! The signal has arrived. I’m thrilled to announce that...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 162 min read
Audible Update
Todays update!!! Audible is coming! Rush Stone has accepted the job and has started work on the audio version of Echoes of the neXt!...
KaCee Bunn-Smith
Jun 161 min read
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