Length6h 36m
About this audiobook
Three years after the Zero-Point disaster at Sandia-Redfeather, the world calls the incident a calibration failure. Dr. Chloe Ortiz knows better. So does the 0.04% mass imbalance in a routine alloy shipment from forty-eight hours ahead.
The bridge is no longer sending warnings. It is sending things.
Biological filaments. Neural scaffolding. Synthetic tissue designed to survive inside metal, machinery, and eventually the human body. What began as prediction has become invasion by infrastructure.
As Director Damian Crowe and the Oversight Team accelerate the Matter Protocol, Chloe discovers a future intelligence known as the Sovereign Ghost is not conquering the present for power. It is trying to survive. That makes it worse.
The Matter Protocol, book two of three in The Causality Sequence by Bobby Cochran, is a hard-science thriller about matter transfer, post-human survival, and the moral horror of being saved by something that no longer understands what human means.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length6 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The Mass Imbalance
19Chapter 19: The Anchor Points
2Chapter 2: Predictive Neutralization
20Chapter 20: The Sovereign Breach
3Chapter 3: The Jitter’s New Heartbeat
21Chapter 21: The Recursive Prison
4Chapter 4: The Vesper Echo
22Chapter 22: The Scramble's Peak
5Chapter 5: Biological Drift
23Chapter 23: The Womb of Obsidian
Show all chaptersShow less
6Chapter 6: The Dead Zones
24Chapter 24: The Broken Vessel
7Chapter 7: The Oversight Purge
25Chapter 25: The Low Point of Tomorrow
8Chapter 8: The Whistleblower’s Fate
26Chapter 26: Connection Lost
9Chapter 9: Blueprints of the Ghost
27Chapter 27: The Aftermath of the End
10Chapter 10: The Threshold of Defiance
28Chapter 28: The Human Flaw
11Chapter 11: The Static in the Blood
29Chapter 29: The Counter-Bridge
12Chapter 12: The Architecture of Control
30Chapter 30: The Refusal
13Chapter 13: The Synthetic Forest
31Chapter 31: The Open Future
14Chapter 14: The Vesper Protocol
32Author’s Note
15Chapter 15: The Predator’s Gambit
33Acknowledgments
16Chapter 16: The Noise in the Machine
34A Note for Reading Groups: Discussion Questions
17Chapter 17: The Refugee Network
35Preview: The Human Constant
18Chapter 18: The Frost Doctrine
36Glossary of Terms
More from Bobby Cochran
CaveatBobby Cochran14h 19m5 (1)Free
CaveatBobby Cochran16h 37mFree
Contractual ChemistryBobby Cochran8h 29m$2.99
The CanvasserBobby Cochran6h 58m$2.99
The Human ConstantBobby Cochran6h 18m$2.99
ABORT PULSE 12Bobby Cochran6h 30m$2.99
THE HARVESTERBobby Cochran8h 36m$2.99
Showdown in the Big EasyCharles Tillman, Michael Anderle, Martha Carr7h 37m$23
Ray Bradbury - Sci-Fi Boxed SetRay Bradbury9h 6m$2 · $0.00
Rebel’s StrikeRachel Aukes, Jamie McFarlane10h 20m$20
Sponsored Apocalypse 2Blaise Corvin10h 3m$25
Coup D’EtatC. R. Daems9h 12m$20
The Greatest Works of Jules VerneJules Verne247h 39m$2 · $0.00
Judgment DayRick Partlow10h 44m$20
ViniumS. H. Jucha14h 7m$23
Bigger Guns, More TroubleCharles Tillman, Martha Carr, Michael Anderle7h 47m$17
Sons of War 4: SoldiersNicholas Sansbury Smith, Tom Abrahams12h 54m$25
Hell to PayMichael Anderle7h 50m$20
A Civil CampaignLois McMaster Bujold18h 49m$32
Warrior’s FateWalt Browning10h 37m$20
The Collected Works of Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick28h 29m$2 · $0.00
The RisenErica Stevens10h 17m$20
100 Years to ExtinctionPeter Solomon14h 48m$27
Amazing Tales Volume 1Max Williams et al.4h 5m$2.30
Scars of RebellionAnthony J. Melchiorri12h 56m$25
The Galaxy, and the Ground WithinBecky Chambers9h 56m$29 · $0.00
AvengerBlair Howard9h 54m$23
You may also like
Under PressureCory McCarthy4h 36m$20 · $0.00
Time Traveler TalesPhilip K. Dick4h 29m$2 · $0.00
2055Antônio Cavalcanti1h 7m$6 · $0.00
The Ghost Network: System FailureI. I. Davidson4h 13m$15
The Ascension FactorFrank Herbert, Bill Ransom14h 8m$23
Amazing Tales Volume 153Lester Del Rey3h 7m$2.30
The Great ResetJones, Alex7h 37mFree
Think Yourself to Death and two more storiesStephen Marlowe5h$2.30
Chain Reaction and Three More StoriesBoyd Ellanby3h 12m$2.30
The Sleeper AwakesH. G. Wells12h 23m$1 · $0.00
Dimension X, Vol. 2Hollywood 3605h 35m$17
The Ghost Network: ActivateI. I. Davidson5h 41m$17
Tyrants of Time and two more StoriesStephen Marlowe6h 7m$2.30
Stolen TimeDanielle Rollins9h 34m$29 · $0.00
The Big Headache and seven more storiesJim Harmon5h 5m$2.30
The Bradbury ReportSteven Polansky11h 51m$23 · $0.00
A Measure of SerenityBryan Prosek10h 10m$25
The Crowded EarthRobert Bloch4h 21m$2.30
The Last Frequency Mike Ponzers56m5 (2) Only with Ultra
THE NULL PROTOCOLNullXX1h 9m5 (2)Free