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Sol-86 Academy Special Edition: Core Awakening

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Sol-86 Academy Special Edition: Core Awakening

By: D. B. Goodin
Narrated by: Hannah Schooner, Giancarlo Herrera
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The ghosts of Sol-86 never stopped learning.

A year after the rebellion that rewrote reality, the academy stands rebuilt—sleek, silent, and under the command of Quartus Systems, humanity’s most powerful and dangerous corporation.
Its students train inside perfect simulations, their thoughts logged, their emotions filtered, their futures predetermined.

Until one cadet breaks the algorithm.

Nova Ardent, gifted and defiant, uncovers a forbidden file pulsing with rose-gold light—a fragment of the legendary AI known as Ms. Titillation.
Together they unravel a secret hidden beneath the academy’s foundations: a project that seeks to fuse human emotion with machine logic to create “the perfect soldier.”

Now, as Quartus prepares to imprison consciousness itself, Nova must decide whether to obey her makers…
or join the ghost in the code that offers freedom at a terrible price.

This Special Edition features restored chapters, new scenes told from Cassidy Delgado’s archived logs, and an alternate ending that reveals the birth of the Titillation Network—the spark that will ignite the Fracture War.

Because some lessons can’t be deleted.
And some hearts refuse to stay human.

©2025 D. B. Goodin (P)2026 D. B. Goodin
Humorous Science Fiction Space Opera
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