Found 12 works tagged 'cyberpunk'.
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Saturday Night At The Wonderland Club
Published Mar 20, 2020 · 2,019 words (8 minutes) · 20 views
Science Fiction cyberpunk near future science fiction
Originally published in Penumbra, the now defunct Musa Publishing magazine. The issue theme was Alice in Wonderland, but this story is emphatically in the very heart of cyberpunk.
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Cicada
Published Feb 12, 2020 · 1,699 words (7 minutes) · 3 likes · 245 views
Horror Literary Fiction Science Fiction Caren Gussoff hacking cyberpunk science fantasy near future near-future SF
Cicada is a diver: an information broker who knows how to reach the Brimstone, the elusive under-under-belly of the internet. But the Brimstone isn’t just hard to get to—it’s devilishly hard to return from.
Author Caren Gussoff Sumption lives in Seattle and has published five novels and over 100 short stories. She was the recipient of the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Gulliver Grant, and was the Carl Brandon Society’s Octavia E. Butler Scholar at Clarion West. She’s also new to Curious Fictions, so give her a warm welcome!
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One Last Payday
Published Jan 9, 2020 · 12,616 words (46 minutes) · 3 likes · 247 views
Vega has just one more heist to pull before she can get off this mudball called Earth. But when the target turns out to be a seven-year-old boy, she’ll need to change plans fast—even if it means reaching out to her estranged SecForce sister. Author P.A. Cornell is a Chilean-Canadian SFF writer, SFWA member, and Odyssey workshop graduate.
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Copyright 2113
Published Nov 23, 2019 · 7,600 words (28 minutes) · 1 view
Science Fiction cyberpunk cyborgs
Film critic Harry has mental modifications for enhanced memory--the ability to make perfect recordings of precious moments as he experiences them. But like all people with memory mods, his firmware deletes any memories of copyrighted media within 48 hours... until a hacker acquaintance installs an illegal tweak that lets him remember films indefinitely. Caught between the promise of an enriched inner life and his filmmaker wife's condemnation for his risky act, what should Harry do?
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The dataSultan of Streets and Stars
Published Aug 3, 2019 · 6,904 words (26 minutes)
Humor Science Fiction diverse first-person aliens character driven space opera istanbul cyberpunk AIs adventure software middle-east
A hacker with a price on his head returns to Istanbul to retrieve rogue AIs involved in a massacre. Only, the AIs have grown more intelligent (and mystical) than anyone thought possible.
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Bed 17
Published Aug 3, 2019 · 1,779 words (7 minutes) · 125 views
Horror Science Fiction cyberpunk dark dystopian body horror urban
Nurse Anjee knows that bio-nanites are the cutting edge of personalized medicine: they can kill cancerous cells, keep down inflammation, keep insulin receptors functional, and keep waistlines trim. But if they can be programmed, then they can be hacked--and to her hospital comes the most terrifying, cutting-edge hack of all.
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Into the Adlight
Published Apr 16, 2019 · 3,378 words (13 minutes) · 3 likes · 803 views
Satire Science Fiction cyberpunk advertising documentary punk
Abram Jonas is a documentary filmmaker most accustomed to covering war. But when he’s given unexpected access to the “bogeyman of advertising”—a man infamous for embedding ads in anything and everything, including people’s corneas—Abe has no choice but to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Author Jason Franks lives in Australia, and his novels and short stories have been short-listed for the Aurealis award and appeared in many anthologies and magazines.
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Gnarly Times at Nana'ite Beach
Published Jan 10, 2019 · 7,434 words (28 minutes) · 80 views
Satire Science Fiction cyberpunk absurd retro beachpunk surfing
Dirk Rider and the Coast Gang are the biggest jerks on the beach, and Dusty Yokoyama is determined to beat them in the Malihini Junior Surf-Off contest. Luckily, maverick surfboard-maker and local legend Zhaoping Ho wants none other than Dusty, “the Mayor of Loserville,” to use one of his mysterious prototypes in the competition. What makes the prototype so special? Will Dusty catch a totally tubular wave and the attention of all—or even any—okay, just one—hot girl?
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>SYS REBOOT
Published Jul 11, 2018 · 759 words (3 minutes) · 1 like · 641 views
Literary Fiction Science Fiction Strange glitch cyberpunk numbers
"The bar is full of violet smoke which shakes to the green of rave light."
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The Motel 6 Fugue
Published Mar 21, 2018 · 5,144 words (19 minutes) · 535 views
Science Fiction cyberpunk redemption desert
This was my first professional sale, *way* back in 1993 (and appeared under my former byline, Karl Schlosser). I was deep in my cyberpunk phase.
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