Tag: cyberpunk

Book Reviews

Into the BeanStalk: Book One of the Jack: Cyberpunk Series

A corrupt megacity. A broken world. A girl who can no longer afford to hide from her past.
Jack is a techie and long-time shut-in, driven to save her father from corporate servitude. That means getting her hands on scrip, and lots of it. Going into debt with the most violent bikers in Hope Megacity will get her the cybernetic limbs she needs to overcome her disabilities, but that’s only the beginning.
A vicious betrayal, a lethal cyberattack, and some broken neural hardware has Jack seeing things — namely a huge column of light climbing all the way to the Global Corporations’ city in the clouds. She’ll need to join up with the city’s most notorious hacker to find out what the elite are hiding from the millions of people living under their feet.

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SIMBiotic

t’s 2088 and tech has infiltrated every aspect of our lives: from the cyber-rich decked out in elective prostheses, to every Cybro-controlled citizen hooked up to their holographic heads up display. Humanity has become dependent on tech: SIMbiotic. Now, it’s starting to go wrong.
Trino, an under-the-radar specialist offering HUD alternatives and facial recog mods, can help you disappear. Just ask any of her anti-establishment, privacy-seeking clientele. But when a Cybro guard goes rogue at a nearby riot, her under-the-radar operation gets compromised, forcing her to run.
As the Cybro dragnet tightens, Trino receives an unexpected message that makes her question the authenticity of her father’s death. Desperate and alone, she turns to former client, Neb Fink, cyber genius and suspected Anonymous sympathizer, to help track down the truth only to discover more deception and mysterious death.
Compelled to work alongside her sworn enemy, Trino learns the startling truth about her father while struggling to overcome an even bigger challenge, one endangering humanity’s very future.

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Streetcab Seshjack

If you borrow a body, there is no going back.
Aedan Namakoto cares about one thing: saving humanity from being enslaved by an addictive virtual reality controlled by the adtech industry.
He’s also a man torn between two lives.
Online, he is the respected founder of a nonprofit VR network promising virtual worlds free from invasive ads and surreptitious surveillance.
Offline, he’s a guilt-ridden single father in poor health, working obsessively to escape the past.
But when a mysterious hacker pulls off an impossible crypto crime, Aedan is left broke and his network on the brink of bankruptcy.
The only one who can help him now is his estranged brother, the powerful CEO of an adtech network. But an enemy is a dangerous ally. And when Aedan does the unthinkable, borrowing a body against the will of its owner, he is betrayed in the worst possible way.
Set in a tug-of-war between IRL and VR as the main reality of humanity, Streetcab Seshjack is the story of a man forced to sacrifice one half of himself to save the other.

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In the Heart of the Void

The crew of an interstellar cargo ship on a routine mission find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere. As if that’s not enough of a disaster, strange things start to happen on board. What follows is a series of events none of them could have possibly prepared for…

In the Heart of the Void is a nerve shredding sci-fi horror story set in space.

You’ll never look at the stars the same way again.

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The Demon

A mysterious vigilante is stalking the neon-soaked streets at night.

Taking on the most dangerous of criminals and saving lives, one night he rescues Charlie, a plucky young journalist, from a gang of masked men.

Desperate to discover her enigmatic rescuer’s identity and motives, she learns of a dark, terrible past…