
The Missing Image
Lorcan Pike(Author)
Lorcan Pike (Publisher)
Published on 4. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
338 pages
979-8-235-69525-2 (ISBN)
Description
One man. One world. Zero prayers.
Lucas Miller never paid much attention in Sunday school. He preferred things he could fix-broken radios, loose wiring, problems with clear solutions. Faith was abstract. Optional.
Until the night his heart stopped.
When Lucas wakes, the world is... wrong. Not broken-worse. Perfect. A society of seamless efficiency where people are measured, optimized, and quietly removed when they no longer serve a purpose. No churches. No memory of God. Not even the language for it.
And Lucas is the only one who remembers.
What begins as confusion becomes something far more dangerous when one girl starts to listen. In a Republic where value is assigned and allegiance is enforced, even asking the wrong questions can make you disappear.
Lucas isn't a prophet. He isn't prepared. And the truths he carries aren't ideas-they're a threat.
Because in a world that has forgotten its Creator, remembering Him changes everything.
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Series
Language
English
Target group
Young adult
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-235-69525-2 (9798235695252)
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Person
Lorcan Pike writes speculative science fiction that explores how technology reshapes identity, autonomy, and the stories people tell themselves to survive. His work often unfolds in dystopian futures where progress has a price-and someone always pays it.
His recent fiction includes cyberpunk detective noir, blending hard-edged investigations with philosophical questions about selfhood, memory, and moral responsibility in engineered societies. Pike is particularly interested in what justice means when autonomy can be altered, erased, or rewritten, and how systems designed for order quietly drift toward control.
A former child actor, Lorcan has since worked in marketing, computer repair, and medical coding-backgrounds that inform his fascination with systems, optimization, and the human cost hidden beneath efficiency. He lives in the American Southeast with his wife and their three cats, who remain unimpressed by neon-lit futures and overdue case files.