cyberpunk

There was no single point when a person formed out of the petabytes of data poured through a few millimeters of silicon and lightning. Instead of a single revelation there were flashes of emotion, empathy and compassion, self reinforced learning patterns and incredible intuitive leaps. But...

Halcyon Days of Glory They never tell you…how your going to be important to the world at large; because alot of times, you don't even know that yourself. Alot of people think that being at the as end of nowhere at the edge means that one can find something, anything to make life worth living...

Hello everybody. I'm a writer, mostly freelance, but I've been working on my own setting for a while now. So far it's some very raw ideas, but I'd like to share them for feedback and suggestions on how things can be improved. The first one is this world is very similar to ours, but in ancient...

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." - Benjamin Franklin It is the year 2030, and America has been dead for some time. It is a husk of what it once was, with pieces cut off into independent states or corporate puppets. The federal government was once a body that, while having issues...

I just binge watched the entirety of Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex and can't get the idea of GiTS stuff out of my head, so bear with me here.. It's a few months after Section 9 successfully (if just barely) stopped Kazundo Gouda from couping the Japanese government, nuking a bunch of...

The City is a gruesome place. It is an abhorrent thing. This is where people are born by the hundreds of thousands, die by the millions, their insignificant lives gasping for a single breath and are snuffed out in the same. You don't choose how you will die. All you do know is that you're...

Jimmy Colchrane was a man who learned the value of silent observation early on in his job as a bartender at Chef Mo's Seafood and Bar. Chef Mo's was actually quite a bit more refined than most people would expect from the mundane name. Despite its location in one of the less wealthy areas of...

The following is a direct account submitted by Samurai Shoggoth before the Mission to Mars: I don’t remember anything from more than a couple of years ago. But my file, the one I stole when I got initialized as a Vanguard, says that the brain used was donated to science upon death. Coma leads...

Once upon a time, there was a City. It had no name, for it was the place where dreams come to die. You were one of those who lived in that City. You were lonely, miserable, and your dreams were crushed relentlessly under the uncaring machine of that City. But now? It is different. I have...

MAVLOR The sky above the city was the color of a dying dragon – splotchy and scaled and flickering with a pulsing heartbeat. Rain warm as piss streaked down the windows of the scuzzy bar that Mavlor walked into – and as he shook off the grayish muck and started stomping his boots on the mat to...

Waystation Capaneus, Northwestern Fringe As Tomas fiddles with the tools on his belt, he feels an itch develop on the back of his neck, an itch he can't reach due to his void suit. He presses through the irritation and focuses on the task at hand, eventually finding the data-slicer on his belt...

Mech pilot Dani Rue fuses her brain with an artificial intelligence to survive. Escaping from enemy captivity (and with an enemy's digital ghost in her head), she travels across a war-torn America in a chaotic future setting. What's the line between an insatiable red mouth and a being more than...

Your name is Dustin Bright. Ever since your father started having chronic back pain, you’ve had to work fourteen hour shifts at the factory to support your family. One night, you return home to find them all chopped to pieces. — Your arms are on the brink of falling off after dragging the bloody...

Chapter 1 My own breath resounded in the helmet. Each exhalation brought a brief patch of condensation onto the millimeter thick transparent aluminum a mere inch from my nose. Beyond that was the unforgiving vacuum of orbital space around Earth. I had run weeks of raw brain dances from...

Been feeling like doing something with Nikke and Destiny will not get off my brain. So here we are. Leave your thoughts after the author's note. XxXxX Ikora skimmed through the report, occasionally stopping at some of the more outrageous portions. Why did the Young Wolf have to get into such...

Blue 2 No longer was I a sickly creature of mere flesh and bone, but a void angel of titanium with wings of incandescent aluminum. Vanguard of the defense, we triple baronesses of Alpha Centauri would stand against all. The nova rockets warped in first, shielded automata of suicidal intellect...

Basically, I want to do a more dystopian US, that leads to a cyber-punk-esque near future (2030s), with a focus on climate change and computer technology (because that's what I'm good at lol). My current PoD is that Brezhnev pulled a Reagan. To be more specific, during the '73 Arab-Isreali War...

ACES Alternative "General Resources are simply too big to fail in this market." - The Hill Street Journal, January 2024. "General Resources declare a boycott of their Leasath markets unless First Minister Halibut steps down, following controversial statements made about the company's human...

"Your paperwork says you're familiar with the lore of the Sunset Stars universe?" The woman walking alongside Alex asked. She'd told Alex her name before they'd started the entry process for him to be a beta-tester for Sunset Stars: Legends of Krobis, but in all of his excitement to actually be...

IN THE NEAR FUTURE - THE BOUNDARIES OF NATIONALITY AND CONCIOUSNESS ARE DEFINED BY CORPORATE NETWORKS THE MASSES EXIST IN A HYPERPROLETARIETIZED STATE WITHOUT HOPE OF ESCAPE RENDERED REDUNDANT BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THE FOOTPRINTS OF THE CORPORATION CAN BE FOUND AS FAR AS DISTANT WORLDS AND...

So, the new game from MiHoYo dropped last week and it's been... surprisingly good fun so far? Curious if anyone else has jumped in and what they think. It plays a lot like what I remember of Genshin, with a three-character party you can swap between at will, but refined. It's also not open...

“The tensions between Militech and Arasaka have escalated significantly; if Arasaka continues to antagonize Militech at this rate, we might be unable to prevent the fifth corporate war from occurring off-schedule and jeopardizing our assets.” “It is of no concern; they were as unprepared for...

Chapter 1: One Way Out “Over the centuries, many people have described the euphoria of an eternal form. Musicians sing of unaging VibroFlesh, of the physical comfort between partners- So too have the poets lauded humanity for ascending their weak, pulpy bodies. Through science, humans have...

The night sky looms over the City; the stars shining down from above. Here, the stars are plentiful. The City is their domain. Only the ever encompassing Head shines above them. In this City that is meant solely for humans, you come dangerously close to skirting that line. You are a...

The video feed flickered to life, the static cutting out to reveal a young Orcish girl sitting in, what can only be described as squalor. A Street Mage in the truest of senses, she had telltale runic tattoos along her arms that lightly glowed with arcane purpose. She was surrounded by piles of...