The Cognitive Quota: When Thinking Becomes a Regulated Resource

By A.K. Solenne

The Kade Primer has changed everything. Sixty-eight percent of the global population can now enter Enhanced cognitive state - faster thinking, sharper pattern recognition, accelerated synthesis. The world should be better. It isn't.

For Rael Voss, the Primer is a lifeline. For the coalition governments scrambling to regulate it, the Primer is a crisis. For the corporations that have begun selling cognitive enhancement contracts - time-limited access to Enhanced state, at a price - the Primer is a product.

Someone is now tracking Enhanced hours. Someone is enforcing limits. And when Rael's quota runs out, the thinking that has kept her alive stops being available.

The Cognitive Quota is a propulsive techno-thriller about the moment intelligence becomes a managed resource - and what people do when their mind is the thing being rationed.

For readers of Neuromancer, The Windup Girl, and hard science fiction that keeps its feet on the ground.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GVXC9F5X
• ISBN13: 9798254674627
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"