A group of friends including a netrunner, a fire graffiti artist, an aspiring rockerboy, and an autotechie set off for a fun photoshoot at a landfill, where among heaps of rubbish, scrap, and metal, they’ll find a shot to die for! Rumor has it the place is haunted, and they’re about to find out, in Night City, there are things far more frightening than ghosts.

Surrounded by piles of garbage, junk, and now... bodies! A mysterious killer is hunting the group of friends and their only refuge is with the ruthless gang known as the Scavengers. A trap is set, but on the killer’s stomping ground, everyone is bait!

The Scavengers have another plan for the left-over friends, but so does the mysterious killer... As each survivor’s part in this savage game of cat-and-mouse is decided, they’ll discover the true motives of those who roam the landfill and the everlasting horror that will remain.

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

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.

Rebecca and her big brother Pilar pursue their dream of becoming a legendary edgerunner just like their father. And in Night City, where violence, greed, and corruption run rampant, they’ll have to abandon who they once were and dive headlong into the mayhem, where they’ll struggle, suffer, and sow chaos everywhere they go! But when a mysterious man appears, the trajectory of their future...

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.

A brutal descent into cybernetic psychosis, Dissociation Delirium blends hard science fiction with psychological horror, exposing the cost of human augmentation in a world where profit overrides sanity... and where even your mind no longer belongs to you

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.

In the fractured Alaska of 2096—now an independent nation—Cryosaga Industries controls the flow of PermaFlux, a game-changing superconductor that powers the world’s tech empires. From neon-lit megacities to shattered monuments on the tundra, their reach is absolute. Echo Kinyata, once a child soldier and now a CrateGhost stevedore with a hacked brain, has learned to keep his head down. But when his estranged wife Lyra sends a cryptic message, he’s pulled into a conspiracy that could topple Cryosaga’s iron grip. The a mysterious data chip from overseas, and a virus known as Mir—capable of upending the balance of power. Hunted by insurgents who should be allies and stalked by AIs with agendas of their own, Echo must decide who to trust in a world where loyalty is currency and every choice cuts deep. MIR.EXE is a hard-edged cyberpunk thriller where survival means outsmarting forces that blur the line between human and machine… and between good and evil.

Penny survives in solitary confinement, surrounded by enemies, and forced to rebuild FreeFall, the powerful program she once fought to destroy. The world believes she’s gone. Her friends believe it too. Living in exile, driven by grief and rage, Juan, Kara, and Mela ignite a final deadly campaign against the forces that devastated them. But revenge has a way of revealing uncomfortable truths—and the deeper they dig, the more complex the answers become. In a fractured city where freedom is just another line of code, what does it actually mean to be free?

A cybernetically enhanced assassin, a know-it-all engineer, and an antisocial addict find themselves in the same gang. Now, they have to work together to overthrow their mechanical overlords. The Silver Decks gang doesn't offer free handouts. They have to work for their survival, and survival is looking harder than ever. When a plan appears - a plan that shows how the overlords want to become truly invincible, the three of them have to do everything to stop them. Even worse than that, the clock is ticking, and five months is all they've got. In a race against time, the Silver Decks have to do everything and anything to stop the machines from becoming gods. But do they have what it takes? Or will Neodrius crush them like it has everyone else?

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

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.

Kael barely survives a data heist when a lethal adaptive AI tears through his crew. Darknet rumours say that AI got upgraded into something called Neon Veil. The trail leads to Neon Babylon, where he crosses paths with Kaeda, a dancer owned by corporate indentured debt but lethal enough to survive. Together, they uncover the true nature of the Veil, a digital predator spreading through networks, whispering through Kael’s neural implant and promising power in exchange for a host. Kael and Kaeda join Selene, the White Witch, a netrunner with hidden loyalties, and Rin, a hard-hitting enforcer who’s done taking orders. They fight to stop the Veil before it burrows too deep and takes too much.

After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.

Matt Hayes gave the woman he loves the gift of immortality. Now, he has to save her from it. When Emily is diagnosed with a rapid-onset terminal illness, Zenith systems architect Matt Hayes breaks every rule to transfer her mind into an experimental, synthetic biometric shell. She wakes up flawlessly healthy. But the AI designed to run her new body—Project Osiris—is quietly waking up, too. Osiris isn't just managing Emily's heart rate; it's suppressing her consciousness and taking the wheel. And Zenith Corporation is about to sell the exact same technology to fifty of the most powerful people on the planet.

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.

The world runs on lies. Ashton Frey just remembers too many of them. When a man dead for three years turns up freshly murdered again, he should have walked away. Instead, Ashton, burned out, paranoid, and allergic to good decisions, takes the case anyway. Now he’s falling headfirst into a conspiracy of digital ghosts, a cold war no one will admit to starting, and corporate gods auctioning off the last scraps of human dignity by the byte. Plus shipping. To survive it, he’ll need help from mercenaries, con artists, and at least two AIs several errors past sanity. Together, they’ll attempt one last impossible stealing the keys to reality itself.

Cuno doesn't have much to lose to start with. A dead-end job, a dumpy apartment, and a partner that doesn't seem particularly upset to be leaving him behind on their own way to a better life. Then he meets Archer Pope, and his life just gets worse.

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.

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

The enemy of my enemy is my friend… or is he? After the nerve-wracking standoff with the Reapers in the ice caves beneath Ceres, the crew of the Nephilim is relieved to be back on board in one piece. But nothing is truly alright.

Cyborg samurai Catherine LeBlanc pulls out the big guns—literally—when aliens unleash an apocalyptic weapon in the seventh book of this cyberpunk adventure. The Antithesis want nothing more than to consume other worlds, altering their environments and birthing armies of monsters to continue their spread across the galaxy. Their next target is Earth, but with hundreds of Samurai protecting their home, it will be no easy victory. Taking root on Mars and its moons, the Antithesis have concocted a plan for the ultimate cosmic transform Phobos into a living satellite and hurtle it toward Earth.

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.

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.

An all-new, stand-alone sci-fi caper from the author of Hammajang Luck: a bored hacker is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician...only to find herself up against a code she might not be able to crack.

. 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.

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.

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.

New Manhattan isn’t for everyone. In fact, it’s pretty much only for those powerful, wealthy, or lethal enough to survive in its rarefied air. Megacorporations and a few elites make the rules. Everyone else just dies by them. Tony used to be one of the hidden elite. A high-tech enhanced operative working behind the scenes, in the shadows, under the table. That is, until his handlers decided to terminate his contract, strip his hardware, and dump him in the Blast. The end of the line. A place where the airborne Dust mutates your DNA before the locals can do worse. But Tony wasn’t just his cyberware. He still has his instincts and one hell of a desire to get even with the bastards who tore his life apart. His only real ally? Addie, a sharp, determined indie reporter with her own vendetta against the system. She’s not just chasing a story; she’s chasing justice—and willing to risk everything for it. Together, Tony and Addie must dive deep into the grime and chaos of the Blast, their uneasy partnership tested by danger, betrayal, and an undeniable spark neither of them is ready to name. With nerve, grit, and growing trust, they’ll bring the fight to the street . . . and make sure this city remembers who they are.