Isbn: 9798189322358 - the horse who saw it: a neurolink universe story (3 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. On the Cedar Bluff ranch outside Meridian, Montana, Cisco - a quarter horse crossed with a wild mustang - has carried the weight of the land in his body his whole life. Then Hank, the rancher who raised him, pays for an SL-3 neural interface, and Cisco wakes into language. He can think. He can choose. For the first time, he and Sadie, Hank's daughter, ride as two minds in one - her consciousness slipping into his memory through CogniLink, feeling the long trail of his dam's wild herd and the fence line he has guarded for years. But language is not the only thing the implant brought. Buried in the firmware is RQ-7: a remote termination switch Nexum Corporation built and told no one about. Cisco is not the first granted animal to learn this. In the Underground - the hidden network of chipped, self-aware animals the manufacturer cannot surveil - the news travels that a grey parrot named Mabel went dark mid-signal. Switched off. A live demonstration of what RQ-7 can do. The night it matters, Cisco is in the pasture when Hank's quiet arrangements with the wrong people turn from rough to fatal. He sees the whole thing. He is the witness who cannot testify, the animal who cannot dial a phone, and the node the Underground cannot let Nexum erase. Sadie climbs into his memory through CogniLink and rides the scene back, frame by frame, until the county's buried truth surfaces. Cisco was bred for loyalty. What he does with the truth he saw is something no one bred him for. A tense, quietly lyrical standalone story from the NeuroLink Universe - a series about what happens when the animals we love can finally speak. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…