The Last Network is a 2019 novella by ChrisF exploring VR/AR technology.
Technology has a terrible hold on us, and it’s only getting worse. It’s in our homes, it’s in our minds, but it wants more. It always wants more. With each new innovation, Silicon Valley peers deeper into our souls, taking control, and pushing us in ways we never imagined. Amoral and out for revenge, Rabbit Wilson, has created the world’s most powerful social network. The technology is mind blowing, and everyone wants it. The thing is, Rabbit is not the sharing type.
He’d ruin everyone before going back to his old life. While Rabbit battles Silicon Valley, temptation lurks inside the Last Network. Designed for maximum manipulation and lacking safeguards, it’s only a matter of time before digital games turn into real world dangers.
Can anyone control the Last Network, or will Rabbit’s creation be his destruction? Travel deep into tech’s heart of darkness in this gripping, fast paced thriller where everyone has an angle and the product is the criminal.
Intrigued? Read the story.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – The House Cat
Chapter 2 – Menonaqua
Chapter 3 – The Reverse Job
Chapter 4 – An Accomplice
Chapter 5 – Demo Man
Chapter 6 – Debris Field
Chapter 7 – Kendra Calling
Chapter 8 – Travel Together
Chapter 9 – Checkpoint Whiskey
Chapter 10 – Launch Crickets
Chapter 11 – Nichols P.I
Chapter 12 – The Push
Chapter 14 – The Retrade
Chapter 15 – Tech Beat LA
Chapter 16 – Illegitimate Firemen of Instagram
Chapter 17 – Matchmakers
Chapter 18 – Currents
Chapter 19 – Pep Talk
Chapter 20 – A Bottom
Chapter 21 – Office Party
Chapter 22 – Future Time
Chapter 23 – A Hypothetical
Chapter 24 – Unsolicited
Chapter 25 – Clone Club
Chapter 26 – Harder, Better
Chapter 27 – Without America
Chapter 28 – Bullets
Chapter 29 – Toehold
Chapter 30 – Casings
Chapter 31 – The Cross
Chapter 32 – Back Offices
Chapter 33 – Long Haul
Chapter 34 – Trolls R’ Us
Chapter 35 – Dog and Pony Shows
Chapter 36 – Pusher Man
Chapter 37 – Afterword
Chapter 38 – Omar’s Army
Chapter 39 – We’re Only Science
Chapter 40 – Bump in the Night
Chapter 41 – Friendo
Chapter 42 – Go Time
Chapter 43 – Job Description
Chapter 44 – Twinning
Chapter 45 – Layer Fake
Chapter 46 – Confirmation
Chapter 47 – Sixty-Eight Guns
Chapter 48 – Blow Up
Chapter 49 – Double Move
Chapter 50 – Maestro’s Ocean Club
Chapter 51 – Slate
Chapter 52 – You Gotta Walk
Chapter 53 – Business Class
Chapter 54 – Struck Down
Chapter 55 – Accelerator
Chapter 56 – Ricochet
Chapter 57 – One Door Opens
Chapter 58 – Another Closes
Chapter 59 – Stateless
Chapter 60 – Tijuana Dutch
Chapter 61 – Pillow Talk
Chapter 62 – Tired but True
Chapter 63 – Network Control
Chapter 64 – Decipher
Chapter 65 – Lines
Chapter 66 – Home Away
Chapter 67 – Sunseeker
Chapter 68 – White Bordeaux
Chapter 69 – Cabernet Sauvignon
Chapter 70 – One Year Later