
The Oracle Engine
Michael Zmuda
In a fractured world where magic and technology collide, knights in enchanted steel charge plasma cannons, and towering mechs are felled by ancient spells. Commander William King, a tactical genius from the hyper-logical Directorate of Praxis, is a...
Location:
United States
Description:
In a fractured world where magic and technology collide, knights in enchanted steel charge plasma cannons, and towering mechs are felled by ancient spells. Commander William King, a tactical genius from the hyper-logical Directorate of Praxis, is a ghost in their machine, leading a desperate resistance in the primal world of Myrr. Haunted by the woman he lost when reality was torn in two, he wages a war of attrition against his former masters—a war they are statistically certain to lose. But hope glimmers in a forgotten legend: the Axiom Engine, an ancient machine with the power to either heal the fractured worlds or shatter them forever. The key lies with Amelia Davidson, a fierce warrior whose bloodline makes her a living Catalyst, destined to interface with a power that defies all reason. Together, they must embark on an impossible heist into a silent, sentient city that has not known life in a thousand years. Meanwhile, across the dimensional tear in the sterile, logical world of Praxis, the master mage Melanie Davidson languishes in a white-walled prison. Stripped of her power and subjected to endless tests, she becomes an unlikely leader for the “Kindled”—a nascent resistance of outcasts with terrifying, uncontrolled abilities. Her own desperate fight for survival puts her on a collision course with the Directorate’s darkest secret, a secret that shares the same impossible name: Axiom. Yet both sides are blind to the true enemy. A parasitic cosmic horror, an ancient evil known only as the Maw, festers in the wound between worlds. It feeds on the conflict, turning soldier and sorcerer alike into its puppets. Can a haunted commander and a powerless mage, separated by the very reality they are trying to fix, uncover the heart of the lie before their two-front war becomes a feast for a hungry, patient god? Duration - 7h 54m. Author - Michael Zmuda. Narrator - Michael Zmuda. Published Date - Wednesday, 14 January 2026. Copyright - © 2026 Michael Zmuda ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:35
Chapter 1 - The Ghost of the DTP
Duration:00:21:45
Chapter 2 - Subject 734
Duration:00:27:07
Chapter 3 - The Axiom Engine
Duration:00:23:48
Chapter 4 - The Kindness of Strangers
Duration:00:30:19
Chapter 5 - The Unwinnable Heist
Duration:00:22:24
Chapter 6 - The Chaos Class
Duration:00:27:13
Chapter 7 - A Sword a Spy and a Key
Duration:00:25:24
Chapter 8 - Ghosts in the Machine
Duration:00:36:17
Chapter 9 - The Two Front War
Duration:00:31:21
Chapter 10 - The Silent City
Duration:00:31:11
Chapter 11 - Fire in the Core
Duration:00:27:37
Chapter 12 - The Ghost in the Wires
Duration:00:26:01
Chapter 13 - The Heart of the Lie
Duration:00:26:36
Chapter 14 - All That is Solid
Duration:00:22:43
Chapter 15 - The Mills Directive
Duration:00:23:52
Chapter 16 - The Last Ember
Duration:00:20:21
Chapter 17 - The Convergence
Duration:00:22:07
Chapter 18 - Minutes to Midnight
Duration:00:27:47
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:29