Within this megastructure the silent, stoic Kyrii is on a mission to find the Net Terminal Gene—a genetic mutation that once allowed humans to access the cybernetic NetSphere. Armed with a powerful Graviton Beam Emitter, Kyrii fends off waves of attacks from fellow humans, cyborgs and silicon-based lifeforms. Along the way, he encounters a highly-skilled scientist whose body has deteriorated from a lengthy imprisonment who promises to help Kyrii find the Net Terminal Gene, once she settles a score for herself...

    Contents include Cthulhu Club and Cybergothic commentary, a multitude of hyperstitional portraits, theory-fiction diagonals, Mu ethnography, a detailed elaboration of the Pandemonium system, The Book of Paths, Axsys-AOE exposures, and more.

    This is a story about the legions of Inferno invading the Earth. If we can enter AlterWorld, why can’t AlterWorld enter our home? Do you like to watch Chaos unfold? Beware, for one day you will feel its gaze upon you…- Call of Duty. Doc’s long awaited story. Did Doc make his dream a reality and save the doomed children? And what will the authorities do once they see the empty beds and the overfilled freezers in the hospice morgue?

    This box set includes all three full-length novels comprising the Jessie's Game duology (Signs of Life, Dead Reckoning), as well as the thrilling prequel, A Dark and Sure Descent.Save $ by purchasing this set versus the individual books. Signs of Life Welcome to GAMELAND. Everyone's dying to get in.Someone is attempting to hack Jessie Daniels’s brain implant. Only problem is, her prime suspect, Micah Sandervol, is supposed to be dead. And reanimated. But what if he's not, after all?For Jessie, a traumatized survivor of a reckless break-in to Long Island’s Gameland, survival means just getting through the day. Her best friend now roams the island as one of the soulless, people close to Jessie are disappearing, and her own husband is acting suspiciously. Control lapses are occurring with greater frequency. It’s only a matter of time before the implant network, meant to protect them, becomes their greatest threat. A Dark and Sure Descent It's the summer of 2030, and the government is experimenting with a new digital network on Long Island. That's not all they're bringing.This is the true account of a biomedical disaster that changed the world in the most terrifying way imaginable… and it all started with a single bite.After the unexplained death of their newborn son, experimental biologists Lyssa and Ramon Stemple find themselves at the center of a brutal murder investigation involving an employee at their controversial animal research laboratory. The case takes a shocking twist when they are unjustly blamed for intentionally creating a virus which will destroy the Stream. As the Stemples attempt to flee the human scourge, their six-year-old daughter Cassie begins to show the first signs of infection. Desperate to save her, one of them will attempt a treatment so radical, so unthinkably horrific, that the looming Apocalypse will pale in comparison. Dead Reckoning The thrilling conclusion to the GAMELAND sagaAs network outages begin to spread on the mainland, Jessie Daniels, the only person known to be immune to the Reanimation virus, is ruthlessly hunted down inside Arc Property’s virtual gaming arcade on Long Island. After her are a half dozen Live Players and an untold number of dead ones. As the world descends into chaos, she begins to unravel the secrets of the people who created the technology, including one which promises to destroy them all.For ages 16 and older. What is S.W. Tanpepper’s GAMELAND Episodes 1-8 (Season One) were released in monthly episodes between May and December 2012. The series follows the exploits of six young adults as they break into the Long Island arcade hoping for a rare glimpse of the undead survivors of a decades’ old outbreak. But while breaking in is easy, getting back out is a killer.READ THE FIRST TWO GAMELAND BOOKS FOR FREE!Book 1 Deep Into the Game ASIN: B007Z4UP4ABook 2 Failsafe ASIN: B0087H2754Or get the 1+2 package for free.

    They prove rather good at outmaneuvering all the world’s major hitters in this area from corporations to governments and various special ops agencies. Downloading themselves to advanced prototype bodies being engineered in secret in various labs around the world, Morbius and his followers are quick to take control of those pipelines to bring more of their kind into this realm. However, their access to super-sentience hardly ends there. Being artificial life, they can work the Internet to their advantage like no one else. Morbius also makes sure prior to leaving his digital arena to equip himself with team members possessing specialized aptitudes in areas such as Earth politics and propaganda, skills obtained in part by observing the outside world before making the leap. He also has everything else he needs to direct the relatively dimwitted unupgraded humans in the massive task at hand, redirecting Earth’s entire economy to an accelerated space race, ostensibly to bolster the greater good. In what turns out to be supreme irony, the corporate and government heads worldwide quickly line up in support of Morbius, no heavy handed persuasion necessary. As it turns out, he can fill the shortage of geniuses needed to make the future happen today, which has been a lingering worldwide problem that contributed to a sustained crashed global economy. Morbius promises these leaders profits and power beyond their wildest dreams, speaking their language and easily cajoling mankind’s master manipulators into playing his game. But not everyone is swayed by Morbius’s insta-guru charisma. Among those trying to bring him down are–surprise of surprises–earlier breakouts from the digital world hiding out in a remote region in Alaska, led by a man named Brewster. Occupying earlier prototypes, they’re relatively ancient compared to the newer cybernetic bodies co-opted by Morbius’s people. But like primitive cars relative to newer models, they may also be more durable and less prone to flaws. Working with them are some of the smartest unupgraded humans on the planet who struggle to keep up but are not beyond serving up surprises of their own. It soon becomes apparent that Morbius and his minions are not satisfied with merely ruling the planet. They have their sights set on the entire multiverse. And with their greatly enhanced intellects relative to unupgraded and upgraded humans alike, there’s little to stand in their way except for Brewster and his gang. Again the irony: Brewster and his insurgents may have to wait until Morbius is spread out across the cosmos enough to make their move, when he’ll be taxed to his limits and therefore the most vulnerable. But by then, will it be too late?

    It’s a concept anthology, a collection of stories where eighteen different authors share their vision of a single idea. It’s Cyberfunk, cyberpunk stories that play with future concepts from an African/African American perspective. Most of all it’s engaging, exciting, thought provoking and fun. Like the inhabitants, the City is perceived in various ways by the various writers. Some stories intersect, some diverge, but they all entertain. The result is a journey into a unique world described by unique and engaging voices.

    She just knew she'd rather be a ballerina than a florist. But in 2154, though the world has mostly recovered from the supervolcano, vocational education is still programmed based on aptitude testing. An implanted skill chip can give the recipient many things, but not longer legs. So Mina fully expected to end up inheriting her family's flower shop and landscaping business someday.Like three generations before her, she had the nose for it.She didn't expect one of her best friends to be kidnapped. She didn't expect to be inducted into a covert organization by desperate authorities. She didn't expect to have to be grateful for her other best friend's 'undead' Chevy. She didn't expect programmed spy information to come with the taste of aluminum on her tongue — or a burning sensation when she fought its impulses. She didn't expect fights, car chases, family secrets, bureaucrats acting as espionage cheerleaders, electro-magnetic pulses, or the frequent scent of gun oil.She definitely didn't expect to still have to deliver flowers while figuring it all out.

    Technology and neglect made this country what it is. It's near as wild as it was after America wrestled it from the native civilizations. Maybe more so. It's a tough place to make a living, but it's home and on a good day it’s a bounty hunter's gold mine.Winston Brand was a bounty hunter, but nothing felt like a gold mine when he woke after a battle he didn’t remember. By the looks of it, it wasn’t a battle he’d won. All he knew was that Goodwin was paying good money. There were other hunters after the girl, too, so Winston hardly had time to ask himself the question: Why does Chester Goodwin want his own daughter back Dead or Alive?

    “Moreaus,” humanoid and animal hybrids, and “frankensteins,” genetically manipulated humans, live as second-class citizens. The Moreau Quartet: Volume Two brings together two of S. Andrew Swann’s novels set in the Moreau universe. In Emperors of the Twilight: Evi is a frankenstein—the next step beyond human, her physiology bioengineered to make her the best Agency special operative in the business. When she’s forced to go on the run from an unidentified hit team ready to destroy a skyscraper just to take her out, Evi’s only hope is to evade her stalkers long enough to make contact with her superiors. But she soon discovers that even the Agency may not be able to save her. In Specters of the Dawn: A moreau of rabbit stock, Angel Lopez is the last survivor of a Cleveland street gang. A tough street fighter in search of a haven, she’s come to “tolerant” San Francisco only to find that even the old-fashioned kind of humans aren’t keen on moreaus. Still, she thinks she’s found a home and safety until Byron the fox barges into her life, dragging her into the deadly underground of information-peddling, and a series of confrontations that may blow not just San Francisco but the whole planet wide open.

    None among them were prepared to discover a derelict spaceship attached to the asteroids surface and camouflaged against their ships scanners, left untouched for centuries. Inside the craft rests one hundred and nineteen corpses, suspended in cryogenic stasis long enough for their bodies to wither into husks. One man is found alive, barely more than a skeleton, with no memory of his past. This man is Ajax. His chance to live again will see the lives of the mining crew changed forever, not necessarily for the better, as he struggles to live in an alien world he has no knowledge of. The first in a series of books, Ajax: Rebirth tells the action packed story of Ajax's return to his former physical prowess through brutal underground fights, murderous missions, scenic tours of Konar City, and a staple diet of death and destruction.

    But he’s about to discover that the shadows are hard to leave behind, and old enemies have their ways of drawing him back in. Dosed with an exotic arcane poison that will kill him in days unless he retrieves a powerful magical artifact, ‘Hawk has to assemble a team fast and think even faster, because he’s not the only one tracking down the prize. His team is hardly the well-oiled machine he’s accustomed to: an old friend with major trust issues, an old rival who hates everything ‘Hawk stands for, a decker who annoys everyone he meets, a samurai who’s only in it for the money, and a gunslinger who may have her own agenda. With his life on the line and the clock ticking fast, ‘Hawk must survive the mean streets of Los Angeles and the magical hells cape of the Australian Outback while keeping his mismatched team from imploding before they finish the job. But when the artifact is revealed to be far more than it seems, Winterhawk is forced to make a choice that could affect the lives of millions—to say nothing of his own.

    The trouble is, he's only starting out, and no one has even heard of him.Meanwhile, a new hacker called Sloom has just cracked the hardwall. The hardwall has been unbeatable for twenty years, protecting everyone's neural implants from external interference. If Chris could do the same, he'd be unstoppable, a legend in the hacker world. Others have been trying for years, so how did Sloom break through, and how can he recreate it?"Shiny Young Adult" is the first book, a short novelette, in the "Cyberpunk Outlaw" series by Simon Cantan. With fast-paced heists and plenty of action, it'll have you tearing through the pages to the very last word.Grab a copy today and wear out the edge of your seat!

    Leatherface is racing against the clock to make it back to Wire City in time for Germ’s Funeral, but evil cops, rape gangs and maniacal punk singers are out to screw up his plans...

    But underneath the fame and fortune exists a dark and dirty history. Corruption. Lies. Betrayal. Now, a woman with a grudge intends to wipe clean that filthy slate—by killing the CEO who wronged her years ago and ending the global coup he’s been planning for years. And how will she accomplish this? With her newly acquired neural enhancements, of course. Complete with the power to manipulate the minds of others. Originally published in last year's bestselling anthology, The Telepath Chronicles, this action-packed sci-fi short finally breaks out on its own!

    This is all that Ajax knows, his memory robbed from him by a prolonged stay within cryogenic stasis. Except his memory has returned, in part, thanks to a telepathic, murderous prisoner named Joel, the very man Ajax had himself imprisoned to kill. The snippet of memory has awoken questions that Ajax cannot find the answers to. Yet these have to take a back seat, as the price for his freedom from prison includes losing Ilya, the woman he loves. In order to stay loyal to his word and remove himself from Ilya's life Ajax finds distraction in the slums of Sector Six, where Ajax's limits will be tested beyond anything he has experienced. The second in a series of books, Ajax: Relinquished tells the action packed story of Ajax's return to Konar City, where he finds out the true extend of his all-consuming bloodlust, and just how strong his word is.

    Profits to go to PAWS Lynwood, an animal shelter and wildlife rescue. Ask a bunch of eclectic writers to write stories inspired by one of the greatest dramatists of all time. Cast the stories in various punk genres: Cyber, Tesla, Diesel, Steam, Clock. Result: an innovative collection of stories inspired by the Bard, with a twist! Punk stories show the path not taken or the path that shouldn't be taken. Let us reshape your world.

    Unknown to them, an even stronger thread unites them—the alien probe, Prometheus. What will it take to unlock the priceless knowledge contained in its flawless databanks? A short story from The Prometheus Saga. INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR Q - What is the Prometheus Saga? A - In The Prometheus Saga, thirteen authors unite to interpret how an alien presence would interact with the human condition over a time period that spans from the dawn of man to the present. The stories cross genres and genders, allowing for entirely different narratives and insights on historical events and the human experience. Q - Where should a reader start when selecting a short story to read in The Prometheus Saga? A - Each story is self-contained and can be read in any order. The reader is free to select any of the stories at random to begin their experience. Each short story has a different setting in history. The book description will explain the time period setting for each particular story. Q - What is this alien probe? A - An alien civilization landed a probe on Earth at the dawn of mankind. This probe, a form of artificial intelligence, can morph into any human form, take on any human identity, either male or female. Its life spans hundreds of thousands of years. Its mission is to report everything it can about us to its home planet. What this humanoid observes and learns over centuries of human existence will be interpreted through each short story in the saga. The alien probe is as mythic as Prometheus, the Greek Titan who was said to have brought fire to mankind.

     In events that take place directly after the mill explosion, FBI agent Dylan Plumm's investigation puts her on the trail of the Blurred Man, a mysterious individual who may have been on Earth for hundreds of years. The case turns deadlier at every turn, placing Dylan in the cross-hairs of shadowy antagonists even as she unravels a centuries-old mystery. But when Dylan comes face-to-face with the Blurred Man, will he be an ally…or her deadliest foe? • Author’s note: This story is part of the Prometheus Saga, an experimental anthology featuring a single character who’s life spans centuries as an observer of earth and mankind. The entire anthology is collected here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017... INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR Q - What is The Prometheus Saga? A - In The Prometheus Saga, twelve authors unite to interpret how an alien presence would interact with the human condition over a time period that spans from the dawn of man to the present. The stories cross genres and genders, allowing for entirely different narratives and insights on historical events and the human experience. Q - Where should a reader start when selecting a short story to read in The Prometheus Saga? A - Each story is self-contained and can be read in any order. The reader is free to select any of the stories at random to begin their experience. Each short story has a different setting in history. The book description will explain the time period setting for each particular story. Q - What is this alien probe? A - An alien civilization landed a probe on Earth at the dawn of mankind. This probe, a form of artificial intelligence, can morph into any human form, take on any human identity, either male or female. Its life spans hundreds of thousands of years. Its mission is to report everything it can about us to its home planet. What this humanoid observes and learns over centuries of human existence will be interpreted through each short story in the saga. The alien probe is as mythic as Prometheus, the Greek Titan who was said to have brought fire to mankind. About the Author Bard Constantine writes gritty futures and far-flung fantasy. His love of those genres catapulted his writing career, which includes the Troubleshooter novels, featuring the private eye of a dystopian future. Other novels include the horror/sci-fi novel The Aberration, and Shadow Battles, a recently released epic fantasy series. A huge fan of edgy, fast-paced television shows, Bard paces his stories in a similar fashion, keeping his readers hanging on from chapter to chapter. Bard lives in Birmingham, Al with his wife and unbridled imagination. Keep up with his work at http://barwritesbooks.com and at Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/bardwritesbooks

    On the grounds of an Old Saxonchurch, three strange net-runners arrive from a future where everyoneis assigned a barcode from the moment of birth. What you buy, what youread, your health care history, your bank accounts, your measuredintelligence, are all captured by this barcode and sent to the feed ofOmniCorp. Human data mining forms the basis of a massive IndustrialComplex, a thinly veiled profit center, based on the control of humanbehavior. To interrupt the inception of OmniCorp, the net-runners, asubversive underground group, enlist the aid of the steampunkVictorians to thwart a meeting between two men, who hundreds of yearsearlier, laid the foundation for OmniCorp. Extraordinary figures racetoward a rendezvous with history, weave in and out of time, fight evilsteampunk automatons, hide in Victorian brothels, fight Indianmutinies, and take refuge in dystopian cyberpunk pawnshops, to insurea future where personal privacy is protected over corporate power.

    He called the FBI with his theory, but they blew him off. Until someone they cared about was “accidentally” electrocuted. Now the government wants Ethan Hamilton—a regular family guy and virtual reality programmer struggling with his belief—to go after a murderer who kills on principle. But Ethan’s addiction to online gaming threatens to destroy his family and his faith long before he can track down the assassin. Virtually Eliminated is a near-future technothriller in the tradition of In the Line of Fire and Snowcrash. A maniac bent on killing in the name of patriotism, a civilian expert with the only chance of stopping him, and the mind-stretching cat and mouse chase that takes them to the depths of the sea, to the craters of the moon, and to the very edge of the online universe. Virtually Eliminated is book 1 in the Ethan Hamilton series of near future cyberthrillers. Virtually Eliminated Terminal Logic Fatal Defect ** These novels were originally published in 1996–8. ** Excerpt from Virtually Eliminated Once he decided to kill himself, the rest was easy. He took a last look at the candle burning on the bedside table, then willed the interface open. The world he saw through the goggles was dark, as it always was at the beginning. But with a nudge of thought, a portal of light opened and he flew through, leaving his body far behind. Back there, his name was Louis Parks. Here, he was Sentinel. In a few moments, he would be neither. This local net no longer satisfied him. He knew every node, every subdirectory—even every user—all too well. He hurried to the GlobeNet interface. There was the usual long queue. Sentinel wrinkled his forehead, and a collection of small three-dimensional objects appeared in the “air” before him. A computer-generated hand reached out from his invisible body to grasp something out of his inventory. It looked like a bullhorn. He activated it. Sheep, he thought, moving through the now-unpopulated net. He closed his bullhorn subroutine and sped invisibly through the interface. He had existed as Sentinel for two years, now: watching, listening, piecing things together. The inescapable conclusion grieved him, turned to stone what was left of his heart. It became clear that the time for sentinels—always so passive, quiet, and immobile—was past. The turning point had been Senator Griffith’s rebuttal. The lesser officials to whom Sentinel had divulged his findings had turned him away, but that had neither surprised nor discouraged him. But if a full Senator would turn a blind eye to the indisputable facts, however, America was in worse trouble than Sentinel had first imagined. That was when Sentinel had left the beaten path. If the United States government was not going to combat America’s invaders, then he was going to have to defend her himself. Sentinel breathed more easily once inside GlobeNet proper. He lived for the freedoms offered here. Freedom of expression, of presence, of information.

    Genetic therapy and cybernetic implants extend life well past the hundreds. Human thought is converted into digital data and broadcasted wirelessly without the need to part lips. And yet, with all of these advancements, the streets are not safe. Gangers claim territory by force. Mercenaries fight wars in exchange for food. Corporations deploy killing machines. The world is slowly coming to an end. This is not the future she wanted. She fought in wars that were not hers. She lost limbs, rewired her brain, and even sacrificed her name. All for a dream called: peace. Now, she is just a shell. A jaded soldier, bitter and angry at the world. But, she won't give up just yet. She will be reborn under a new name. She will join the horsemen of a new cause, prove her worth in the virtual realm, and claim the codename: Spider. Like her namesake. She is wise. She is calculating. She is merciless. And, in time, she will change the future. PREY FOR SCORPIONS (Mercenary Hearts, Volume 1) is the first part of a serialized cyberpunk novel about a world at the brink of chaos, the lonely soldiers trying to maintain order, and a jaded woman in search of peace. For the rest of the books in this series, please refer to the list below: MERCENARY HEARTS (Volume 1) Prey For Scorpions — Available Now! (Volume 2) Raine And Lightning — Available Now! (Volume 3) A Diamond Reflection — Available Now! (Volume 4) ??? — Coming April 2016 (Volume 5) ??? — Coming May 2016