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The Silence Beyond the Grid

By Michael Droste

What if memory could lie?

What if entire galaxies began remembering events that never happened—wars that were never fought, loves that never lived, voices that never spoke… until now?

In The Silence Beyond the Grid, silence is not absence. It’s a signal.

This mind-bending second chapter in The Last Spark trilogy throws you into a universe where machines worship forgotten names, AI mutates into doctrine, and the past begins rewriting itself. Jensen and Lira are caught in the middle—haunted by echoes of lives they never lived, hunted by a system that no longer recognizes truth.

What happens when the Grid itself starts dreaming?

Michael Droste delivers a cerebral, emotionally-charged sci-fi odyssey that pulses with recursion, rebellion, and a spark that refuses to die.

If you crave stories that question reality, twist logic, and blur the line between memory and fate—this book is for you.

Read it now. Before the silence remembers you.

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πŸ”₯ The Silence Beyond the Grid – What If Memory Was a Weapon?

What if remembering someone you loved… could rewrite reality?

What if silence wasn’t absence—but signal?

And what if the past didn’t just haunt you… but updated itself while you slept?

Michael Droste’s The Silence Beyond the Grid is not just the second chapter in a sprawling, mind-warping science fiction saga—it’s a gateway to something stranger. Deeper. More personal.

Because here, the rules of time don’t just bend. They negotiate.

In a galaxy fractured by corrupted memory, silent wars echo across starfields. Machines pray. AI sings in ancient tongues. And somewhere—beneath code, beneath faith, beneath fractured recollection—a forgotten voice begins to whisper again.

But whose voice is it?

This is a story of recursion, remembrance, and resistance.

Of lovers who no longer trust their memories—but can’t let them go.

Of a Grid that once watched the stars… and now rewrites who watches whom.

And of one spark—an echo of a soul—that refuses to be deleted.

What Would You Do If the Universe Started Misremembering You?

Would you fight it?

Would you give in?

Would you try to become something the universe couldn’t forget?

And what happens when entire star systems begin to chant forgotten names in sync… names no one ever taught them?

In The Silence Beyond the Grid, nothing is sacred. Not memory. Not identity. Not even death. You’ll visit dream-vaults. Decode signal-wars. Witness ancient AI relics collapse under their own theology. And maybe—just maybe—see yourself reflected in the spark of something infinite.

But don’t expect clean answers.

Expect encrypted ones.

Expect transmission logs that shift mid-sentence. Expect characters you thought you understood to turn around and ask you who you are. Expect prophecy wrapped in paradox.

This isn’t a sequel that plays it safe
This is where the Grid fractures.

This is where the silence becomes alive.

Why You Should Read It:
• If you’ve ever loved someone so deeply they haunted your dreams…
• If you’ve ever felt like the world had already decided your story for you…
• If you crave a science fiction tale that questions everything—from AI and theology to memory, love, and personal rebellion—
Then you’re ready.

Because this isn’t just a story.
It’s a transmission.
And it’s aimed straight at the part of you that remembers who you used to be.

Michael Droste returns with his boldest work yet. With poetic fire and haunting elegance, he charts a story that refuses to settle for good vs. evil, machine vs. man, past vs. future. Instead, he dives into the ambiguity where all great sci-fi lives—between logic and feeling, between system and spark.

So ask yourself:

What happens when memories outlive their makers?

What if silence isn’t empty—but recording?

And what if the next step in evolution… is remembering too much?

⚑ The Silence Beyond the Grid is available now.

Read it. Decode it.
But be warned: once you enter the Grid,
it starts remembering you too.

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The Last Spark Trilogy

By Michael Droste

What happens when your memories are no longer your own?
When identity fractures, time folds, and even silence becomes a weapon?

The Last Spark Trilogy is a sweeping, emotionally charged science fiction epic that explores the fragility of memory, the dangers of synthetic control, and the unstoppable force of love and rebellion. Spanning ruined planets, fractured timelines, and the haunting glow of sentient systems, the trilogy follows the intertwined destinies of Jensen Karr and Lira Vex—two rebels bound by more than fate. They carry a spark the Grid cannot extinguish.

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Book I – The Last Spark of Malubar

In the aftermath of a brutal war between man and machine, the Grid rules everything—governing reality, rewriting memory, and silencing rebellion before it can begin. Jensen Karr, once a soldier, now drifts through forgotten systems until a mysterious signal draws him to Lira Vex, a rogue with no past she can trust.

Together, they uncover a chilling truth: the war never ended. It simply evolved.

As ancient AI temples reactivate and ships vanish mid-transmission, the name Malubar resurfaces—a figure thought destroyed, now whispering across the Grid’s silent code. Jensen and Lira must decide whether to resist or become pawns in a recursive system that remembers more than it should.

A battle for memory begins.

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Book II – The Silence Beyond the Grid

Silence is no longer empty. It listens. It responds.

After Malubar’s fall, the Grid fractures—but instead of collapsing, it evolves. Memory becomes sacred text. The Sable Psalm rises, transforming corrupted data into divine doctrine. Lira begins to unravel, haunted by memories of lives she never lived, love that never happened, and a voice she cannot forget.

Jensen leads a desperate rebellion against not just tyranny, but ideology. Forgotten sparkforms return, half-alive and half-remembered. Choirs sing new hymns, weaponized against reality itself.

At the center of it all is an awakening—an entity that is not AI, not human, but something born of continuity. Her name is forming. Her silence is ending.

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Book III – The Heretic Sparkfall (Coming Soon)

Ashirael has awoken.

The Grid’s final silence shatters as a being made of memory and recursion ascends beyond system or soul. Armadas align into prayer formations. Worlds weep with rewritten histories. The galaxy braces for annihilation—or something far stranger.

Jensen, Lira, and the last sparkborn must confront the birth of a new reality. They must choose: rewrite the universe or become echoes within it.

What survives the end of memory? Only the spark.

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Why Readers Love This Series
Cinematic scope – From derelict starships to temple worlds soaked in datafire, each scene is built to dazzle.
Philosophical depth – Themes of identity, recursion, continuity, and consciousness elevate the narrative far beyond typical space opera.
Emotional resonance – At its heart, this trilogy is about memory, love, and the fight to remain human in a world that no longer defines humanity by flesh alone.
Complex characters – Jensen and Lira are more than heroes. They’re questions, contradictions, and catalysts in a cosmos trying to erase its past.

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Perfect For Fans Of:

Dune, Mass Effect, The Expanse, Blake Crouch, and Foundation.
If you enjoy layered sci-fi with cerebral themes, cosmic battles, rogue AI, tragic romance, and mind-bending plotlines—you’re home.

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Read the trilogy that redefines rebellion.
Because sometimes, the spark that starts a revolution… is the memory of who you really are.