Length4h 52m
About this audiobook
In Neo-Varanasi, your karma is a number. It glows on your forehead—a blockchain-verified score that determines where you live, what you eat, whether you get medical care. The system promised fairness. It delivered a cage.
Arya Rai was the system's perfect success story: She designed campaigns that convinced people their worth could be measured. She believed the lie because she was winning.
Then her score crashes to zero.
Plunged into the underground world of Aparigraha—the scoreless resistance—Arya must confront her complicity. Her father is dying, throttled by the same algorithms she helped normalize. A revolutionary named Kavi wants to burn the system down. And a glitch in the machine reveals something terrifying: karma was never a ledger. It was always something wilder, older, beyond any algorithm's control.
A philosophical thriller about identity, resistance, and what happens when the system that gave you everything decides you're worth nothing.
Being is not a ledger.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Dystopia
Length4 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 3, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1KARMA GLITCH
2servers.
3blood and gold.
4PROLOGUE II: THE FIRST SCORE
5That Anjali Devi had smiled.
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6identity:
7CHAPTER TWO: FESTIVAL OF ALGORITHMS
8Tejas Jr.
9DharmaWear™, three years ago.
10But Arya had survived. Thrived. Integrated.
11CHAPTER FOUR: THE ETHICAL NFT
12#CulturalEquity #ArtDAO #VoteNowForNextSequence (0.05 AUTH per vote).
13IDComm SCORE: 4.1/10.
14(The cold click of abacus beads)
15CHAPTER FIVE: THE TEMPLE OF INFINITE SCROLL
1604:10:45: Biometric Response Analysis during DharmaWear™ Ad-Stream #7: 89% Joy, 7%
17"HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE'S ALGORITHMS" (Attribution: J. P. Sartre, No Exit)
18CHAPTER SIX: THE EVICTION
19circuitry.
20The same woman from the alley.
21CHAPTER SEVEN: THE GANGES BAPTISM
22PART TWO: THE DIALECTIC OF RECOGNITION
23— G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
24Beyond hiding?"
25CHAPTER NINE: THE UNLEARNING CIRCLE
26job title. Without the past."
27CHAPTER TEN: KAVI'S STORY
28[Present Day]
29CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE MIRROR CHAMBER
30self.
31CHAPTER TWELVE: ROHAN'S ULTIMATUM
32CHAPTER THIRTEEN: POLICY 0
33PART THREE: THE GLITCH AS REVELATION
34POLICY 0 DEPLOYMENT: SUCCESSFUL
35CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE CITY REACTS
36ADSERVER_ROLLBACK: ASSET NOT FOUND DISPLAYING DEFAULT: /archive/2025/Q3/family_generic.png
37CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE COUNTER-MYTH
38the dark together?"
39— Vikram Rai
40"Papa—"
41CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE PHILOSOPHY SEMINAR
42vibrant authority.
43BUT FREEDOM WITHIN FACTICITY
44the pre-dawn rain.
45Return.
46PART FIVE: THE WEIGHT OF EXISTENCE
47CHAPTER TWENTY: THE MED-BAY
48Prakash. Light.
49recognition of shared failure. "And now?"
50like violence.
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