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Street by Ryan A. Span

Street is a fast-paced online/print cyberpunk thriller about a woman alone in a dystopian future, Gina, working to make ends meet like the rest of the new underclass — by taking a powerful drug that gives her telepathic abilities.  She skirts the edges of sanity when she takes a job she knows she really shouldn’t, and finds herself embroiled deeper . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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Cloudnigh by Spinner

Humanity has evolved. Our minds have not.

Roman Fairchild is your average reclusive bin-cron—until the government’s stonewall-busting war game comes crashing own on his doorstep, bringing forth an impending armageddon. . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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The Corvus Project by Corvus Corvix

There is life after petroleum and credit economy. Just not as we knew it.

Set in a fairly near future in which fossil fuels are unavailable but electrical power is plentiful–in Seattle anyway–the initial chapters create a dystopia that is actually not such a bad place to live.  Pedal power rules the crumbling streets and freeways, while people live where they will and, increasingly, however they wish. The Northwest is lucky: it still . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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Unsettled World by W.B. Sage

Most folks reckoned that when humankind finally up and destroyed itself, it would do so with bombs, blades, brimstone and all those other things that politicians and priests had warned about.  Turns out it was a poet who guessed the right of it.  The end came more with a whimper than a bang. There were no great wars, no . . .

A serialized novel, updating fortnightly.
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The Know Circuit by Gary A. Ballard

A serialized cyberpunk blog novel, The Know Circuit by Gary A. Ballard is the sequel to Under the Amoral Bridge.  Artemis Bridge is the connection for all your illicit needs.  But when his bodyguard’s grandmother goes missing in a mysterious explosion in Boulder, Colorado, Bridge is forced to ditch his self-interest to help a friend.  But as they approach the . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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72 Hours by Jerry Kimbrough

A horror-themed webserial that takes place “in real time” over the course of 72 Hours. Focuses on three different protagonists, which alternate from chapter to chapter. . . .

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Verifiable by Ayami Tyndall

Welcome to the first Surveillance Peace State In utopia nothing is unknown. The Cloud sees, records and shares everything. Apps can tell you anything about anyone from anywhere. No secret can be kept, no wrong can be done . . . except by a Ghost. Invisible to the Cloud and overlooked by humanity, these shadow people lead hidden lives off the grid. Unrestricted . . .

A serialized novel, updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Killing Time OST by Aheila

A Nightshade Assassin Serial

Rich heiress by day and assassin by night, Lorelei finds balance and strength in her crazy double life.  She deals with crazier stuff on a daily basis, including her nightmares about nanotechnology and its perversion of the world.  The only implant she tolerates is the chip playing music in her brain.  Armed with a vintage Desert Eagle, assisted by a . . .

A serialized novel, updating thrice weekly.
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system.  Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves . . .

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Dominion by JL Bryan

In a near-future, totalitarian America, a TV “news” reporter begins to uncover how the regime uses propaganda and psychological operations to control the minds of the public. Note: Only the first five chapters are available on the website.  The complete novel is available as a PDF. . . .

A complete pdf novel.
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Thomas Bleakly: PI by Robert Gryfft

Thomas Bleakly, Private Investigator is batflip insane.  Sometimes it works for him, sometimes . . . not so much.  One day a beautiful woman hires him to find her father.  The catch?  She’s a robot. Told from three perspectives, none of them necessarily trustworthy.  Watch out for for nonsensical subplots, insane characters, and conspiracies that span whole realities. . . .

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STREET

Streets Ahead

Editor: Miladysa
November 6, 2008

There are two books in the Street Series – Empathy and Clairvoyance.

For a book that fits into the cyberpunk genre – Book One – Empathy – achieved something quite remarkable in my case, it hooked me in and kept me dangling right to the end. 

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UNSETTLED WORLD

Settle down for a good story

Member: Gavin Williams
January 9, 2011

The story "Unsettled World" features a post-apocalyptic society.  Not much time is spent explaining how our civilization fell, which is to the betterment of the plot, which deals with events a few generations down the road.

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