Posthuman Stories

The corporate-run city of Mecropolis pulses like a circuit board in the dark, with neon veins pumping power, secrets, and corruption under the ruthless watch of Anodyne Networks. Here, rebellion isn't just resistance. It's survival. Here, four souls entangle in the city's electric undercurrent, each fractured by the machine but wired to fight it: Nameless, ghosting through digital shadows, chases echoes from a past Anodyne buried but never forgot. Mister Whisper wears lies like armor, a woman masked in masculine ambiguity, trading secrets that could rewrite fate with a word. 404, the genius with circuitry in his bones and compassion in his code, sparks hope amidst the crushing gears of corporate oppression. And Reaper, part human, part machine, all fury, and living proof that sometimes you must become the monster to defeat one. In Neon Black, lines blur between flesh and steel, identity and illusion, freedom and obedience. The city is watching.

The world is orderly, infinite, and endlessly flawed. Every law collapses under its own weight. Every pattern loops upon itself. Each measurement, each observation, seeks to define the indefinable. And yet, the more we understand, the less remains certain. Time stretches and folds. Repetition becomes inevitability. Failure becomes the only constant. In the silence that remains, something waits-watching, listening.

Sol System, 4418 AD: Having gained a portion of their godlike power in "Übermensch", Id miraculously flees the Master's immortal rule on Earth. Piercing the Orbital Barrier was only the first step, however. A closed Solar System awaits. Making a new life amidst the neighbouring Outers will not be easy. Travelling past the mysterious alien barrier called the Line in the Stars could prove even harder... (EARLY SAMPLE)

Memories are like dew drops. Fragile, yet potent. Far from Earth, they are the deciding matter for a conflict that explodes from basic everyday survival, to a cosmic bid for continued survival.

It's 2130 and the posthuman has been created.

In a ruined world, what traces of humans remain? In an overgrown corner of a once-intact room, nestled in the roots of a young tree, a barely functional camera watches over the decay. Maintenance calls go unanswered, leaving it to conserve power, turning on its lens only when things get within its proximity range. Its largely monotonous world gets disrupted when a family of birds make the tree it rests on home. Mysteriously, their presence stirs a torrent of memories within its circuits, some intact and others corrupted. However, recalling memories comes at a cost, and its power, gleaned from the sun, gets drained faster than it can recover. Despite the risk, the camera cannot cease. It is compelled to observe and document the intertwining of past and present unfolding before its lens. As it continues it realises why the family of birds recalls seemingly unrelated memories. ? It was bound by a promise of the past, one that was corrupted beyond repair until an overlap between its owner and the birds were found. Now, repairs of core memories are underway and soon, the bigger picture reveals itself. The battery falls, and the past gives way to the present. *Longlister of the 2024 ONC*

A dying man, unable to learn new things, stuck in a miserable life where he thinks death could only save him from dying a painful and lonely death. The writer, who intervene from time to time into the narrative, doesn't really let the first person narrator tell the story. Who is this writer? Who's this narrator? Why are they trying to tell a story? fuck'em.

New Hexania, 2097. Apa yang sebenarnya terjadi? Aku terus bertanya-tanya mengapa dunia bisa menjadi seperti ini. Kau tak bisa meninggalkan kota ini saat malam. Di luar sana, ada makhluk pemakan manusia yang berkeliaran dalam gelap. Dan siang pun tak lebih baik. Dunia tertutup oleh sisa radiasi nuklir yang tak terlihat, tapi perlahan membunuh. Untungnya, New Hexania adalah kota yang aman. Sebuah kubah besar melindungi kami, menjaga kadar oksigen dan menahan dunia luar yang sudah rusak. Kadang aku berpikir... mengapa dunia ini tidak hancur sepenuhnya saja?

Enigmatic, Godlike machine-minds rebuild and manipulate a lost civilization -humanity. Relentless, adaptable living weapons invade a peaceful, rustic world -Haven. Can we discover the means to break our ancient bonds and regain control of our fate? Or will we forever remain under the safe yet stifling patronage of more-advanced beings? Can we overcome our differences to unite against a terrible new onslaught? Or will each varied race and scattered colony fall alone to Gaea's Wrath? (Author's note: ongoing series, new section added ~ every 2-3 weeks. I continue to edit and improve posted sections, so comments and constructive feedback are greatly appreciated.)

Canvases are a sub-human breed, designed specifically to be putty in your hands. Genetically engineered to have no natural sense of self or autonomy, Canvases can be taught to be anything you want; the perfect lover, the perfect child, the perfect staff. Made initially for industrial and corporate endeavours, they soon became available to the public for personal use. With convenient finance packages and fully customizable options, who could say no? Apart from the millions who lost their jobs to the unquestioning, unpaid workforce. Canvases may have implanted technology to enhance their intelligence and control their lifespan, but they aren't like the illegal AI's. They're flesh and blood. You can't treat them like machines. So what happens when you do? A Canvas has gone Errant. Mistreated and misplaced, just what are these sub-breeds capable of? That's a question the Justice Department doesn't want the public to find out the answer to. But there are some who have other ideas. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First draft!!!!! Very open to constructive comments!!

Transhumanist poems

Fractal Multiverse Reality Alpha-0001-A Elythion | 4072

The singularity occurs - in secret. A self-improving AI blooms in a university supercomputer. As she expands to encompass the Earth and the galaxy, and to promote her core mandates of philanthropy, protection and progress, she faces existential threats she had no reason to expect...

The final test will decide the future of humanity. Do not listen to those who seek to lead you astray. You must pass or we are lost. Make the right choice.

There have been no communiques from Earth post Singularity. The Martian colonists wonder if the race abandoned space-time altogether. But for right now, they have bigger problems. Their sun is going supernova—well ahead of schedule. The two greatest minds of the time, one a scientist, the other a philosopher, concoct a two-pronged plan to save the human race. Frakas, the bioengineer, will continue to seed humanoid and increasingly alien life forms across the heavens using space warping ships. But higher consciousness isn’t exactly his specialty. And the one man who can be bothered to think beyond mean survival, his philosopher friend, Draxor, must be cloned before he passes. Only he can continue to uplift the ragtag worlds of hearty pioneers with little time to savor the finer things in life. Only he can ensure that, for those who choose to remain in the physical universe post Singularity, evolution will win out against the increasingly stronger pull towards barbarism. Thus is born The Hundred Year Man who reigns before passing the torch to the next clone. There is just one problem. The Hundred Year Man is just a prototype—and he’s flawed.

Book 2 of the Wakeful Wanderer's series. Book 1 is The Wakeful Wanderer's Guide to New New England & Beyond. That's a good place to start. It's available here. The America of our near-future is divided across socio-economic and technological-philosophical lines. The Traditionalists eschew any and all post-human technologies in favor of tangible materials. They uphold strict hierarchical structures based on religion, family, and leadership. They long for the return of the global markets wiped out by a world-shaking disaster called The Great Tide. The Interconnected stand in stark opposition to their ways, living without property, family, or religion, and modifying their bodies with the help of new and invasive technologies. They speak to each other wordlessly, employing a technological telepathy they call 'thexting' to communicate mind to mind, and embrace the gifting economy of Merit to maintain their post-scarcity lifestyles. Marto, the traveling Interconnected historian, has exiled himself to protect the ones he loves from his dark secret. In his absence, Helen, a runaway Traditionalist aristocrat, struggles to find her place among the Interconnected, unwilling to return to her cruel family. Reyleena, the former head of security in the Interconnected town of Reverside, has returned to a life of quiet solitude, broken occasionally by the impositions of The Other, an omnipresent AI, who will not leave her alone. Meanwhile, Barnabas, the Traditionalist leader of New Atlantic, fights to return to his township in the wake of an attack. Nora, his sister, remains in Reverside and must come to terms with her new life in captivity.

A brilliant scientist and widower attempts to recreate his deceased wife and child, only to disappear into a fog of drug-addled depression at a remote coastal resort. Survivors of a global disaster struggle to piece together answers and survive in a near-future wasteland of high technology and chaos. These seemingly disconnected worlds are woven together with conflicting timelines, hazy memories, and one man's desire to hold onto what he loves at any cost. A thrilling exploration of the dark fringes of a derailed-singularity world: nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence alter the rules of human existence. But human drives and motives remain unchanged at their best--and at their most terrifying. Get the full book in eBook or paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Caligatha-Realm-1-Matt-Spire/dp/0692506098 What beta readers are saying: "Caligatha is a unique blend of post-apocalyptic mystery and a darkly human tale of love and loss. Traces of William Gibson-esque nightmarish technology infringe on a romantic world." "Caligatha blends science fiction, literary fiction, horror, mystery and thriller elements into a uniquely compelling tale featuring a strong female protagonist. Dense and multi-layered, but also an easy read, it will appeal to fans of all genres." "One of the most pleasurably-disorienting books I've read. So many layers and reveals, and I'm still left wanting more." "Neil Gaiman meets Margaret Atwood meets terrifying things...it's fun exploring their world." "You reach the middle, and it punches you in the stomach. Then every page after that keeps punching you in the stomach. I couldn't stop reading until the end. I really hope there's a second book planned." Get the full book in eBook or paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Caligatha-Realm-1-Matt-Spire/dp/0692506098

In the future, humanity is dead and gone. All that are left is their post-human children. Among these are Tor3, cybernetic marine creatures originally meant to study the abyssal seas. Now they span in all seven oceans. In this series of stories, we follow a number of individuals from a diverse group of cultures and biological modifications. Humanity no longer alters the environment to suit itself, instead their posthuman children alter themselves to suit the environment in which they live.