The Algorithmic Detective
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For the last few years, Kay's life has been a riotous blast living loose and fast amidst the geo-political upheaval of the late-capitalism climate collapse. But now that the dust of globalized anarchy is slowly settling, and a tentative new world order is seamlessly slotting into place, Kay has to make some changes to his life. For starters, he has to find a job in this unfolding age of pervasive surveillance, synthetic media, and barren wastelands.
The Algorithmic Detective is wry neo-noir story that draw the prescient tropes of cyberpunk into the age of climate change dystopias.
Set to be somewhere between a long short-story and a novelette, I'll sporadically update bite-sized chapters as they get written.
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