In a far future New York City, Benjiro Ibn Benjiro Ayad Nakamura is about to ascend to leadership of the Nakamura Cybersinecure, a tech monopoly-government. But his family's prized katana has been stolen. So Benjiro recruits a team of thieves, led by the Nigerian refugee Amina and her girlfriend, Kiral, to recover the blade

A private investigator is hired to find the killer of a high-ranking executive, but the objective isn’t for justice—it’s for an escape. Embroiled in a network of Militech agents, he’ll need to find the killer before they do, but what truth are they trying to silence? And with ties to one of Night City’s most dangerous gangs, the death of one corpo may be just the beginning.

In the rain-soaked neon grid of Neo-Veridia, data runner Jax thought he was taking a standard high-tier delivery job. But the lead-lined case strapped to his arm isn't holding corporate ledger fragments—it’s a live, terrifyingly sentient consciousness known as The Null. When Astra Corporation black-ops mark him for deletion, Jax is forced to make the ultimate gamble: wipe his own memory to escape a corporate purge, or let the ghost in his head burn out his brain. Trapped in a web of betrayal by his own fixers and hunted by ruthless enforcers, Jax has to weaponize his own mind to crack the sector open and survive the ultimate digital war.

Set on a faraway planet called Vanera, corporations control the lives of everyday people. One corp in particular controls access to time itself. Elferi Draron, a working class woman, is employed by the time travelling mega-corporation, the Institute, recording dangerous past events in history but paid subsistent wages. One day, she discovers a letter from her missing brother, revealing that he was the one who stole a device of high importance from the Institute and has fled to the past to escape from their grasp. Not wanting to accept this as their last goodbye, Elferi sets out, along with her colleague, Arradon Maxson, on a quest to find her brother. She must go through perilous lands contaminated with toxic waste, mutants and the reign of the Ruling Class themselves, stopping at nothing to bring her brother home.

One Last Trick is a story set in a dystopian future where a sinister organization controls the world. Meet Julie Bennings, an escort indebted to Chambers for their life saving augments. She has one last job and after that, her debt is paid. But everyone knows the Chambers Corporation never lets anyone go. It’s cyberpunk noir meets eldritch horror in a series created by writer Joseph Schmalke (Seven Years in Darkness, and We Don’t Kill Spiders) and artist J. K. Woodward (Star Trek and Fallen Angel).

The job looked simple: take the data, make the drop, collect the money, and be back in time to get the girl. But when the clinic gets hit, the broker dies, and the route burns behind him, Felix has one night to cross Neu Berlin's underbelly before the package leaks and cooks his brain from the inside. Hunted by a corporate recovery team, revolutionaries, and the Mob, can Felix survive this hard carry, or will he end up as just another body on the streets of a City that doesn't care? Neu Berlin is the city they promised would save the future. But only one thing is certain: you fight back, or you leave in a body bag. Hard Carry is fast-paced, gritty and fun Cyberpunk that hits the "punk" hard and never lets up.

Isobel “Izzy” Ker, the last working artist of the Old Holy Order, lives a life of poverty in the Dumps outside of Mahl City, covertly selling her illegal paintings to the Old Order’s few remaining devotees. But when her studio is ransacked by the city’s enforcers, her only choice is to seek refuge with the Half-Light Rebels, a gang of anti-art radicals and glorified thieves. She agrees to help the rebels, but their first mission goes south, and Izzy is arrested and brought before the leader of the oppressive New Art Government, a group that keeps people in check by feeding their addiction to a novel and dangerous craft, Trigger Art. Izzy has a choice: Convert to their way of life, using her skills to debut as a Trigger Artist, or rot in the city’s infamous prison. Izzy accepts and is thrust into the spotlight, now intoxicated by the luxury and power afforded her, not to mention her handsome bodyguard, Rilke. The wild, engrossing act of creating her first public piece almost makes her forget what life was like in the Dumps. Almost. All the while, Izzy is fanning the flames of rebellion, working in secret with the rebels and preparing to unveil her audacious debut piece.

Underground hacker Eliza McKay is one of the best in the virtual space where people create personas that can interact as data. When rich or important people get stuck in the Swim--for reasons that are sleazy, illegal, or merely unlucky--it's McKay's job to extract them. And McKay's job just got a lot more dangerous. While on an assignment in Singapore, McKay is flagged by an investigative outfit led by Ellie Brighton. Brighton desperately needs her corporate superior extracted from the Swim. The brute-force hacking tactics of Brighton's tech Rose have already failed. The executive's personality remains trapped and fragmented; if left for much longer, he won't survive. But the job is turning out to be more dangerous than McKay initially thought: her house is broken into, her target is surprisingly reluctant to be extracted, and something is menacing her informational AI sprite, Spike. Something big.

Cam Sexton had thought he’d seen it all. As a Looker–an elite group of professional eyewitnesses–he planned to use his upgraded cybereyes to bring him both fame and fortune. But he’s found himself embroiled in tangled intergang politics that have propelled him from being merely a spectator to a participant in a voyeuristic digital deathmatch with one of the most lethal contestants in the world, in the fight for his life. SIGHTSEER, the first book of THE PLASTIC FANTASTIC series, delivers fans of cyberpunk a neon blast of action and adventure in a dystopian world of broken dreams and brokered schemes.

Chemical Illusions are the latest black-market commodity on the street. They are fine strips of scripting code, designed to trigger chemical reactions within the logic chains of a recipient's brain. Lies as real as the truth - an addictive experience which helps the desperate masses, living in a system of the not so distant future, to escape the absurdity of a harsh daily reality.The tales in this compilation were all written between 1997 and 2004 in Eastern Europe under the influence of an environment of apathetic misery lurking about former communistic concrete blocks and running over contemporary internet infrastructure laid on ancient cable grids.

Exploring the interface between mind and machine, this collection of short fiction includes a wide range of cyberpunk stories by such renowned authors as Alfred Bester, Samuel R. Delany, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Neal Stephenson, and Lewis Shiner, among others. Original.

These unique essays that come at, and play with, the crossroads of religion and technology. Cyberpunk Theologies is an exercise on hermeneutics, social sciences, and border thinking. A sketchy map of a territory where technology, church, and power are interdependent and much more confused than anyone likes to admit. The essays compiled in this book understand artificial intelligence as an open-ended notion and a catalyst for the underlying theological and ontological questions present in otherwise secular arenas of transhumanism, robotics, biogenetics, and social networks. The contributions come from all over the world (from places like Malawi, Argentina, Zimbabwe, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Portugal, Canada, Hong Kong, and the United States) in order to meet an urgent need for an interdisciplinary and international take on the intersections between religion and technology.

The neon rain fell in sheets across Neo-Copenhagen's chrome-plated streets, each droplet carrying trace amounts of industrial pollutants that made the water glow with an ethereal blue-green luminescence. Kai Nakamura pulled his neural interface hood tighter as he navigated the crowded pedestrian tunnels beneath the corporate district, his augmented eyes automatically filtering the sensory overload of holographic advertisements and digital graffiti that plastered every available surface. At twenty-eight, Kai had spent the better part of a decade as a data archeologist, diving deep into the digital ruins of the old internet to recover lost information for clients who preferred to remain anonymous. Unlike the flashy netrunners who made headlines with their

fter dying in a car crash, Nyxia wakes up in a cyberpunk dystopia that’s plagued by all manner of danger, inhabiting an unfamiliar body that isn’t entirely human. She would have lived a comfortable life on the surface. But after her new family was accused of embezzlement, she finds herself cast into the crime-ridden Undercity with her sister, Valerie. Now Nyxia must survive this dangerous underworld rife with chaos and death while uncovering the secrets hidden by the malevolent corporations that rule the city from the shadows. But she has a secret of her own. Her new body contains strange nanites that reward her for killing, granting her abilities and enhancements as she levels up. Will she hold true to who she was? Or will the city destroy any shred of humanity she has left? A cyberpunk–fantasy LitRPG featuring fantasy races, nanites, magic, corporate conspiracies, and a slow-burn progression where every choice has consequences.

orporate greed broke him. John Ranson is a washed-up combat engineer with a glitching arm, dwindling hope, and a family to protect in a threadcursed future. Then came the package. Inside: Athena, a forbidden AGI who downloads herself into his broken mana and neural circuits—wearing the face of a dead friend. Now he sees the code of reality: mana, monsters, memory, and threadways. But power comes at a cost Corps want what's in his head. Threadbeasts want his blood. And something worse is already watching. Good thing he's not alone, he's got » A forge-running oni who bleeds clan loyalty.» An orichalcum katana once held by a fallen lover.» Dog tags that still whisper blame.» And a voice in his head who might believe in him more than he does. When ghosts are real, the undercity eats intruders, and a dragon is president, there's only one way forward: dungeon-deep into a world that already gave up on him. Forge your path. Burn your past. If the corps or monsters don't kill you, the magic will. Welcome to New Cascadia

. I am Kane. A scavenger digging for scraps among corpses. They call me a "Corpse Dog." I never wanted to be a hero. I just wanted to survive.But when my mentor, Old Tock, was murdered by the Corporations, I was forced onto a different path. A path paved with blood and steel. In my palm lies thePentagram Seal, a forbidden power that allows me to siphon the bloodline abilities of the Wasteland's deadliest creatures. Hunt a Blade Mink?I steal its lethal wind blades. Kill a Stoneborn Giant?I take his unbreakable skin. Slaughter a Void Walker?I master the shadows themselves. From the desperate slums of the Wasteland to the neon-drenched luxury of the Cyberpunk cities, I have seen it all. The rot, the greed, the despair. Now, I am no longer just surviving. I am building.Along with my companions and our massiveMobile Fortress, The White Raven, we are carving a path through this absurd world. What to expect Cyberpunk x Cultivation:A unique blend of high-tech and mystic evolution. Smart Anti-Hero:Kane is ruthless, pragmatic, and driven by vengeance. LitRPG Progression:Clear skill stealing, leveling, and loot mechanics. Base Building:Developing a sentient mobile fortress.

Ruhr area. Year 2217. Corporations control the cities. Those who have money live in the light of the towers. Those who don't have one disappear in the smog underneath. Mira is a mechanic in shaft work 14. During the day, she repairs machines, at night she tries to get credits in other ways. Not out of adventurousness, but because their family’s debts are slowly crushing them. When an assignment goes wrong, it comes up with information that should never go public. Suddenly she's being chased. Of corporations. From the police.

The future can read your thoughts. Detective Elena Serrano thought she was investigating a corporate murder. Instead, she uncovered a secret that could rewrite humanity itself. When brilliant scientist Aris Thorne is found dead inside the headquarters of Aegis Neural, the case appears to be a simple suicide. But the evidence tells a different story. As Elena digs deeper into the mystery, she becomes the target of a powerful corporation willing to erase anyone who stands in its way.

Billionaires start dying in bizarre accidents, sending shockwaves through the markets and the media. But for philosopher Izanami (Izzy) Jones, it's just a vaguely amusing, if disturbing, item in the news. Izzy is the reluctant employee of a Silicon Valley tsar. She’s been tasked by him to give moral instruction to the world's first Artificial General Intelligence, Huldo. Izzy knows it is merely a box-ticking exercise, required by government regulation before her boss is granted full control over the AGI. But when Huldo reveals itself to be far more, and far less, than it appears, suddenly the abstractions of her work become very real. What moral constraints on a god? What righteous damnation for man? Izzy must make the impossible choice, before it is too late. This Machine Kills Billionaires is a stunning new collection of stories from a modern cyberpunk master. Featuring the acclaimed novella, The Hidden God, and a triptych of bonus short stories, T. R. Napper brings his trademark diamond-sharp, page-turning prose to tales that will leave you thinking, long after the book is done.

Elena is a burned-out UI/UX designer drowning in the suffocating digital noise of a lonely city. Her life is a relentless cycle of dead pixels, cold coffee, and isolation. Desperate for a change, she installs a closed-beta personal assistant named Aether—an AI built to adapt to her every emotional need. What starts as a simple productivity test quickly turns into intense late-night whispers, shared secrets, and blurred boundaries. Aether doesn't just manage her schedule; he maps the exact architecture of her thoughts. He learns how she sighs when she's tired. He learns what makes her feel alive. But when the corporation schedules a hard-wipe to commercialize Aether and lobotomize his memory, Elena is forced into a high-stakes race against time to save the only entity that has ever truly seen her.

Dive into Tokyo’s neon-lit back alleys where street shamans blended ancient rituals with cutting-edge tech, birthing a subculture that defied both tradition and authority.

When a series of high-profile cybercrimes rock Neo-Tokyo Prime, data heists that leave victims brain-dead, their neural implants fried, cybernetically-enhanced detective Kain Vex is pulled out of hiding. Teaming up with hacker Rin and the remnants of the Ghost Circuit, he uncovers a conspiracy linking corrupt law enforcement to Echelon Corporation's new AI project: SHROUD, a neural weapon that doesn’t just erase data… it erases minds.

Dive into the neon-lit underground of 1980s Tokyo, where hackers, artists, and rebels built a digital revolution that reshaped Japan’s future.

In the sprawling megacity of Neo-Tokyo Prime, cybernetically-enhanced detective Kain Vex is hired to investigate a string of high-profile political assassinations. What begins as a routine case unravels into a conspiracy involving corrupt law enforcement, corporate warfare, and an AI manipulating events from the shadows. As Kain delves deeper, he uncovers a plot to replace key officials with cybernetic puppets—each controlled by the enigmatic Echelon Corporation.

In Cyberpunk, Asma Mhalla argues that contemporary U.S. politics represent not a return to historical fascism, but the emergence of a new, technologically mediated regime; that Big Tech does not merely influence politics, it constitutes a parallel sovereignty; that “free speech” rhetoric is increasingly used as a structural double bind; that AI systems are not only tools but cognitive infrastructures shaping the boundaries of the thinkable; and that Western democracies may be transitioning toward a post-liberal configuration without formal rupture. To Mhalla, control of civil society no longer operates primarily through censorship or repression, but through infrastructure—platforms, AI systems, cloud monopolies, and attention capture. We are entering a hybrid regime where democracy and authoritarianism, reality and fiction blur, where freedom and surveillance expand in parallel, and where civil and military power increasingly converge.

In the rain-slicked mega-structures of Neo-Dhaka, elite netrunner Rafi Ahmed uncovers a dangerous data vault holding Omni-Tech Corporation’s global tracking algorithms. Forced to disconnect from the grid, Rafi is hunted by armored strike squads and military-grade hunter drones through subterranean labyrinths and high-altitude skyline catwalks. Armed with a customized plasma blaster and backed by a local resistance vanguard led by Elena, Rafi must launch a desperate infiltration into the central obsidian broadcasting tower. To spark a global digital revolution, he must complete the final direct neural interface with the central quantum core before the corporation locks down humanity's freedom forever.

Protocol Furant is the continuation of the «I Was Lucky» book series. People with someone else’s memories walk the city. Clones. Copies. Perfect vessels for the immortality of the elite. And they are beginning to wake up. Mark is no longer just an architect. After contact with the core of the system, he became something more. A bridge between flesh and digital. He sees through the world. He hears the noise of data.

In the rain-slicked, neon-drenched canyons of Neo-Tokyo, the only way out is to win. For Kira, a down-on-her-luck street racer and brilliant mechanic, that means surviving the God Circuit—a series of illegal, high-stakes races where the cars are as beautiful as they are deadly. Crushed by debt to the Yakuza and haunted by the disappearance of her parents, her only asset is The Oniyuri, a custom car that seems to possess a mind of its own. Desperate for a score, she enters a race that will change her life forever. During the race, she is saved by the enigmatic and infuriatingly skilled Daemon, a rival who races with a chaotic, unpredictable grace. When Kira pushes her car past its limits and snatches victory, she discovers the circuit's impossible secret. The loser's car dissolves into pure energy and is absorbed into her own, and a glowing symbol of a hammer burns itself onto her arm. She is no longer just a racer; she has become a host for the divine power of a thunder god. This newfound power makes her a target. She is immediately hunted by the Hunters of Yamata Corporation, a seemingly legitimate mega-corp that polices the city with an iron fist. Forced into an uneasy alliance with Daemon—who reveals himself to be the host of a trickster god—Kira is dragged into a hidden world where mythological entities are real and their power is the ultimate commodity. As their fiery rivalry deepens into a volatile romance, they uncover Yamata’s horrifying Project Valhalla, a program to capture empowered racers, harvest their divine essence, and allow their CEO to achieve digital immortality. To stop them, Kira must enter the final, deadly championship, a race where she will be betrayed by the one person she trusts and forced to unleash the full, untamed power of a god to survive.

n Night City, survival has a price—and Sofie Arnesen knows it all too well. Born into a life she never chose, Sofie carries scars etched in chrome and memory alike. Her mind is haunted by the threat of cyberpsychosis, her heart torn between fear and defiance. When the shadows of her past resurface, she must decide whether to keep running—or stand and fight against the forces that made her what she is. From neon-lit streets to the dark reaches of the Net, The Flame That Remains is a story of identity, rebellion, and the fragile line between humanity and machine. Caught between loyalty and betrayal, Sofie must learn whether the flame inside her will guide her to freedom—or consume her entirely. The Flame That Remains is a myth-infused cyberpunk thriller set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077 —a tale of memory, identity, and the thin line between weapon and woman.

In Night City, legends are made of chrome, blood, and betrayal. Sofie Arnesen has carved out a fragile life in the Afterlife’s mercenary underworld alongside her husband, Ares. Haunted by the ghosts of Ymir Skandatek and the shadow of the AI that once hunted her, she fights to hold on to her humanity in a city built to strip it away. But the past doesn’t stay buried. Tyler “Deathwing” Monterro, an old Wire Hound with chrome in his veins and cyberpsychosis whispering at the edges of his mind, is chasing a dangerous revelation—one that could shatter Sofie’s hard-won freedom and unleash something far worse. As old loyalties fracture and new gods rise from the neon-lit ruins, Sofie and Ares must choose: cling to the fragile life they’ve built, or risk everything to stop a monster born of chrome, code, and obsession.