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
2Chapter 2: Predictive Neutralization
3Chapter 3: The Jitter’s New Heartbeat
4Chapter 4: The Vesper Echo
5Chapter 5: Biological Drift
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6Chapter 6: The Dead Zones
7Chapter 7: The Oversight Purge
8Chapter 8: The Whistleblower’s Fate
9Chapter 9: Blueprints of the Ghost
10Chapter 10: The Threshold of Defiance
11Chapter 11: The Static in the Blood
12Chapter 12: The Architecture of Control
13Chapter 13: The Synthetic Forest
14Chapter 14: The Vesper Protocol
15Chapter 15: The Predator’s Gambit
16Chapter 16: The Noise in the Machine
17Chapter 17: The Refugee Network
18Chapter 18: The Frost Doctrine
19Chapter 19: The Anchor Points
20Chapter 20: The Sovereign Breach
21Chapter 21: The Recursive Prison
22Chapter 22: The Scramble's Peak
23Chapter 23: The Womb of Obsidian
24Chapter 24: The Broken Vessel
25Chapter 25: The Low Point of Tomorrow
26Chapter 26: Connection Lost
27Chapter 27: The Aftermath of the End
28Chapter 28: The Human Flaw
29Chapter 29: The Counter-Bridge
30Chapter 30: The Refusal
31Chapter 31: The Open Future
32Author’s Note
33Acknowledgments
34A Note for Reading Groups: Discussion Questions
35Preview: The Human Constant
36Glossary of Terms
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