Postcyberpunk Stories

Sixteen-year-old Liam grows up in an emotionally barren household and experiences his father as a distant, coldly rational machine. He devises a plan to force his father's attention through an AI-driven reputation and auditing system.

This month, the @Ooorah crew take on the Singularity! Come on in and give the reviews, articles and short stories a read, have a crack at our monthly caption contest and catch up with the adventures of Smith & Jones!

PIP - the Personal Interaction Proxy - lives in a crafted world. It has to function among modules and humanoids. Naive and learning, it carries a 'TellJokes' library.

First you have CyberPunk, then CyberPunk goes through some spectacular changes in itself and becomes Post-CyberPunk! Wow! Seriously. Post-CyberPunk is a sort of utopian's vision of CyberPunk. Like seeing CyberPunk through the eyes of an optimist with big ideas about how to change the gritty, blood-spattered, computer-mainframe streets, and turn it into a sleek, streamlined society. There's less of an anti-corporate bent, or at least the hackers aren't always the good guys.

The future is bright and bleak. At least there's bowling.

Book One of The James Chronicles

In the 22nd century, humanity has retreated into the safety of virtual realities and space colonies. Robert Ratajczyk, revived through cryonics, finds himself lost in this unfamiliar world of digital immortality, struggling to reconnect with a life he no longer understands. As he grapples with the emptiness of modern existence and the eerie perfection of VR and AR, an unexpected encounter with a figure from his past might be the key to unlocking a future he never anticipated. ✨#1 hardSF ✨#1 transhumanism ✨#1 postcyberpunk

A story about how the life of three friends changes when one of them suddenly disappears. Filled with highs and lows, emotions and excitement, bizarre adventures and dramatic plot twists find out what happens to the missing friend in this mind bending fiction.

He's just looking for a worthy executioner.

En el cinturón de asteroides, en una época no demasiado distante, la comisaria Teresa Corrales recuerda su primer caso como Solarpol. One shot para el desafío postcyberpunk de @CienciaFiccion

Stimmen im Staub Fragmentgeschichten aus dem Universum von Liberi Noctis. Sie wollten vergessen. Doch manche Erinnerungen brennen sich durch jedes Raster. Diese Sammlung erzählt von den Namenlosen - jenen, die verloren, was sie waren. Ein Vater. Eine Lehrerin. Ein Kind mit einem falschen Namen. Kurze Geschichten über das, was bleibt, wenn alles gelöscht wurde: Stimmen. Staub. Wahrheit. „Du wirst nicht erinnert, weil du wichtig warst. Sondern weil du echt warst." Dieses Projekt ist interaktiv. Wenn du selbst eine Geschichte erzählen willst - aus Sicht eines Zivilisten, einer verlorenen Erinnerung oder eines vergessenen Ortes - kannst du eigene Kurzgeschichten beitragen. Die Flamme wächst mit jeder Stimme, die sich erinnert. „Du wirst nicht erinnert, weil du wichtig warst. Sondern weil du echt warst."

Carl Ellison wasn't summoned. He didn't reincarnate. He just wanted lunch. Then Truck-Kun.exe hit, and Carl woke up in Neo Phobos-a gamified mega-city run by emotion-suppressing AIs, where life is a subscription and identity is a premium package. There's just one problem: Carl has no neural link. He can't be optimized. And the system doesn't know what to do with a guy who's basically a walking glitch. As factions clash, overlords rage-quit, and reality keeps patching itself, Carl's hunt for a sandwich turns into a rebellion against a world that forgot how to feel. This isn't your average isekai. It's meta, messy, and emotionally unlicensed.

Many dream of attending Five Petal Academy to obtain the secrets of mastering their magical powers and to fight against the corrupted empire and the beasts of the underworld. A young, orphan boy by the name, Otori Ryoma, finds himself on a dangerous journey in attempt to make it to the academy. His journey begins early as the Empire Knights attack and burn the village to the ground, finding a magical stone called the "Violet Moon". After her parents were murdered in the village, Otori chooses to protect his childhood friend, Scarlett, as he takes his journey. Who will they meet along their journey and what secrets will they find about themselves that chooses their destiny?

Imagine you were trapped. Not on a deserted island, but lightyears away from Earth on a distant moon. Then you might be Lucas Anderson. It's the year 2037. Mankind has discovered two wormholes into foreign worlds; much to our misfortune. Near the isolated town of Ernstburgh, two college students have just disappeared, likely due to the beings that came through the wormholes. Seeking to escape his depressing day-to-day life, 20-year old Lucas Anderson decides to investigate the disappearances, only to become a victim himself, too. Once he wakes up on a distant moon, he knows he must get back to Earth. On his quest, he meets several aliens and eventually the two college students. Together, they embark on an interstellar adventure of galactic proportions, seeking to understand the truth behind what's going on. [-] New chapters will be released every Sunday, if possible. Occasional bonus content is released on Tuesdays. Credit goes to hridiv for this fantastic cover. Wordcount of about 160,000 words (don't know the exact number).

They took everything from him. Today he will take something back... In a not too distant future, delinquents are sentenced to serve their communities by becoming part machine. Once they are transformed into Cyborgs, they must follow orders from their superiors, the mysterious corporation known as Bionic Corp. Any Cyborg who fails to submit will be terminated. Atlas Contreras is a Cyborg army deserter, trying to survive in the wake of his escape. When a ghost from his past returns looking for revenge, he must face the sins of his past. Chase Huxley never wanted to be a hero, but when he was framed for a crime he didn't commit and thrust into a world of danger and corruption, he begins to rethink his life plans. The duo teams up in an attempt to solve a mystery and deliver justice to the victims of Bionic Corp's corruption.