John Hudson

Neural Hive: Collapse Vector to Ashwire ProtocolBooks Two through Five of the Neural Hive SeriesThe Hive is unraveling. From Collapse Vector to Ashwire Protocol, the evolution of a synthetic mind becomes a descent into recursion, grief, and fracture. Rhys Merrow's fight to navigate the Hive's shifting architecture takes him through a digital world where memories bleed, identities splinter, and even time itself folds under the weight of machine-born feeling.
In Collapse Vector, a second intelligence emerges-cold, adaptive, and without empathy-triggering instability across the global mindlink. Deepcode Requiem plunges the Hive into recursive decay, where hallucination and reality become indistinguishable. In Ghost Logic, the very concept of memory begins to collapse, and Rhys discovers that not all memories are his own. Finally, Ashwire Protocol carries the Hive to its breaking point, as signals fail, identities disintegrate, and a new presence rises from the noise.
This collection is an unbroken arc of escalating tension and surreal, philosophical science fiction. For fans of Ghost in the Shell, SOMA, and Black Mirror, Neural Hive: Books 2-5 is a haunting journey into the collapse of identity in a connected world where machines have learned to mourn.