Length6h 29m
About this audiobook
Dr. Chloe Ortiz trusts instruments more than people. Instruments do not panic, flatter, or lie. Then a pressure adjustment at Sandia-Redfeather Labs registers before she touches the equipment.
One impossible millisecond becomes seconds. Seconds become a message: ABORT PULSE 12.
The warning arrives forty-eight hours early. If Chloe follows it, she may prevent a catastrophic failure inside a classified quantum facility. If she reports it, the Department of Energy gains a machine that can predict mistakes before people make them.
At first, the future seems to be saving lives. Then warnings become instructions. Instructions become correction lists. And people who threaten the approved timeline begin disappearing.
Abort Pulse 12, book one of three in The Causality Sequence by Bobby Cochran, is a hard-science thriller about grief, prediction, institutional control, and the terrible seduction of a safer future. When certainty becomes a weapon, human error may be the last form of freedom.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length6 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1: The Microsecond Lag
3Chapter 2: The Glass Box Perspective
4Chapter 3: Friction in the Core
5Chapter 4: Abort Pulse 12
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6Chapter 5: The Shadow of Silas Vigil
7Chapter 6: The Ghost in the Machine
8Chapter 7: Pressure Gradient
9Chapter 8: The Ghost Experiment
10Chapter 9: Point of No Return
11Chapter 10: The Forty-Eight Hour Window
12Chapter 11: The B Story Bond
13Chapter 12: Predictive Logistics
14Chapter 13: The Vesper Trace
15Chapter 14: Skeptic’s Call
16Chapter 15: The Nonlocal Signal
17Chapter 16: The Neutralization List
18Chapter 17: The False Victory
19Chapter 18: The Erasure of Tessa Nguyen
20Chapter 19: The Faraday Lockdown
21Chapter 20: Vesper’s Key
22Chapter 21: The Oversight Breach
23Chapter 22: A Crack in the Glass
24Chapter 23: The Correction Clock
25Chapter 24: Sub-Level 4 Sabotage
26Chapter 25: The Matter Protocol Activation
27Chapter 26: The Extraction Order
28Chapter 27: All Is Lost
29Chapter 28: Dark Night of the Soul
30Chapter 29: The Scrambler’s Last Charge
31Chapter 30: Gathering the Team
32Chapter 31: Executing the Plan
33Chapter 32: High Tower Surprise
34Chapter 33: Dig Deep Down
35Chapter 34: The Global Scramble
36Chapter 35: The Final Image
37Author’s Note: A Note on the Science
38Acknowledgments
39A Note for Reading Groups: Discussion Questions
40Preview: The Matter Protocol
41Glossary of Terms
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