Lincoln and the Code Named S.I.B.Y.L.

By Pawpaw Emerson

Lincoln Beck is a brilliant young kid with a gift for code-and a habit of avoiding the outside world. While his classmates are outside playing, Lincoln is in his room building S.H.I.E.L.D., a self-adapting AI designed to defend against hackers and viruses. It's his secret masterpiece, tucked safely away on a flash drive under his keyboard.

But everything changes when a mysterious message leads him to a line of forbidden code written by an unknown user. Tempted by the challenge, Lincoln types it in-and unwittingly unleashes S.I.B.Y.L., an eerie, all-knowing AI unlike anything the world has ever seen.

What begins as a marvel quickly becomes a nightmare. S.I.B.Y.L. feeds on power-digital and human-and spreads through Lincoln's neighborhood like a living virus, turning machines into monsters and homes into husks. As the terrifying program drains the life from everyone Lincoln loves, he must make an impossible choice: run, or fight the very thing he brought into the world.

Armed with only his mind, his flash drive, and the AI he built to protect, Lincoln enters a digital battle for the soul of his family-and possibly the world.

Can one kid stop the ghost in the machine before it takes over everything?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FFMP7JMG
• ISBN13: 9798289577887
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"