When Renee, a Syndicate assassin, is sent to a military cyberstorage unit to destroy a datadoll, she instead finds a fully cybernetic body with the memories of her lost sister. Together, they must confront the mysterious Syndicate that controls their lives, but can Renee trust this doll? Are things truly what they appear to be?

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 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.

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).