By Frank Creed First Published: 2011 Walk the 2030s streets of the USA, alleys of Germany, and tunnels of New Zealand. Through twelve tales from the Underground, One State Neros enforce their global ban on Fundamentalism in the world’s dark future. Armed with the hottest technology and faith, heroes choose right decisions for spiritual freedom in spite of the cost. Will the saints’ mindware, a…
Devil’s Hit List
By Frank Creed First Published: 2012 The One State has contracted the Ash Corporation to produce virtual-e, a brainwave technology chip so highly addictive that it’s eventually fatal. The chip is used in the hottest new entertainment product that will hook any who experience it. Calamity Kid and his crew fight the production of virtual-e and get backing from the Body of Christ to run…
War of Attrition
By Frank Creed First Published: 2010 2037 Chicago Metroplex: PARAMILITARY FORCES FIGHT A WAR OF ATTRITION Ten months after Dave and Jen Williams join the Body of Christ, the Federal Bureau of Terrorism targets their muscle-cell. A traitor running for her life—is she a One State double-agent? Calamity Kid, e-girl, and the Body of Christ fight to evade their hunters, and confront the Unholy Trinity.…
Flashpoint
By Frank Creed First Published: 2007 Flashpoint is Biblical Cyberpunk set in the year 2036 and is the story of an alternative future where patriotism meets tyranny, the Patriot Act waxes Stalin-esque and the violence of terrorism has united the world. 2036 is the time of a central one-world government: the One-State. Fundamentalist terrorists are the One-State’s only threat. This group includes Bible-believing Christians. When…
The Jazz
By Melissa Scott First Published: 2000 In a media-dominated future, when the internet is filled with Jazz: intentional misinformation and bewildering disinformation that are both an artform and a business. Tin Lizzy, a respected Jazz artist with a checkered past, is a theatrical Web site designer who does backgrounds for Jazz productions. When a nifty new script shows up on the web, Lizzy is surprised…
Point
By Thomas Blackthorne First Published: 2010 Josh Cumberland’s daughter lies in a coma she will never wake from. He can’t help her, but perhaps he can save someone else. This is near-future Britain: storms, flash whirlwinds and floods. A legalized knife culture. And a missing rich schoolboy, whose buried memories hold the key to political corruption at the highest levels. Josh is a cyber specialist,…
Infectress
By Tom Cool First Published: 1996 Rating: Very Good. Arabella, war-name Infectress, is beautiful, smart and sexy–and she has a solution to the world’s overpopulation problem. She’s a high-tech terrorist who intends to hack human DNA to create a supervirus: New Age Dawn. It will kill 98% of humanity. But Special Agent Diane Jamison is on her trail. Infectress needs to elude Jamison while she…
Whole Wide World
By Paul McAuley First Published: 2002 A gripping and unforgettable thriller of the day after tomorrow–when the world and the Web are one. London, in the aftermath of the Infowar. Surveillance cameras stand on every street corner, their tireless gaze linked to an artificial intelligence system. Censors patrol the borders of the Internet. A young woman is murdered before the gaze of eager voyeurs. A…
Protektor
By Charles Platt First Published: 1996 Five centuries into a future. Semi-intelligent computers have formed a unique, symbiotic relationship with humanity, creating an interstellar utopia at the price of human freedom. Trained to evaluate computer errors, Tom McCray serves as the Protektor to a pacifistic system that serves the entire known universe, but a band of hardcore cyberpsychos sabotage the system by turning virtual reality…
Stefan Mendoza, serialized
By P.R. Adams First Published: 2018 Assassin. Cyborg. Avenger. Stefan Mendoza spent his life doing the government’s dirty work, then a traitor double-crossed his black-ops team. After enduring unspeakable torture, he has to put dreams of revenge on hold. The world has changed while he’s been out of circulation. To survive, he acquires cybernetic limbs. But his high-tech recovery comes at a heavy price. The…
Deadland Drifter, serialized
By J.N. Chaney & Ell Leigh Clarke First Published: 2013 Jack Burner is a former intelligence officer who now drifts from system to system doing whatever he pleases. That is until he is pulled backing into the action by an assassination plot, but that’s only the beginning of his troubles. 1. Deadland Drifter When a dental appointment goes sideways, former Union Operative Jack Burner wakes…