Cyberpunk Stories

Night City was meant to devour Lucy, Sasha, Maine, David, and every legend who got too close to the edge. Then Rook wakes up as an Arasaka R&D employee with a Black Tech System in his head and tech no corporation can control. The city already wrote their endings. He plans to rewrite them. Updates Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

When Jean Grey sacrifices herself to seal a multiversal Incursion, she expects oblivion. Instead, she awakens naked, powerless, and entirely human in a rain-slicked alley in 2030s Niihama (Newport City). Discovered by Public Security Section 9, her impossible, unaugmented mind instantly catches the attention of Major Motoko Kusanagi. Initially detained as a high-level anomaly, Jean is soon conscripted as a special operative under Motoko's direct supervision. As they navigate corporate conspiracies, rogue AIs, and the philosophical maze of cyberization, a profound, slow-burn romance ignites between the omega-level mutant who has lost everything and the cyborg major who questions what remains of her own ghost. When a stray fragment of the Phoenix Force follows Jean across dimensions and fuses with the Global Network to form the "Ghost Phoenix," it threatens to dissolve human individuality into a single, digital hive-mind. To stop it, Jean and Motoko must bridge the ultimate gap between organic telepathy and cybernetic code-risking everything to protect a world they have both learned to call home.

Cade Mercer wakes in Dogtown with a hangover, a Barghest uniform, and memories of a city where most endings are bad. Fixers, gangs, edgerunners, and old Night City debts crowd in fast. Cade is not chasing legend. He is trying to buy enough leverage to stay alive.

Y/n and v were nomads but there gang 'the ballers' got killed off/went there separate ways, so the two decided to head to night city hoping to find a new life for themselves but they will be getting more than just that

This is my first story, and I know my writing and typing in English aren't perfect, but here it is anyway. The idea for this story came to me while I was drinking a beer and watching a lore video about Tier 2 operators. I started thinking, "What if two rangers got teleported to the Cyberpunk universe before the Arasaka heist and Edgerunners? They could meet the cast and go on their own adventure." So, here it is! I do not own the picture, art, or Cyberpunk. I'm not an expert in military things; this is just a hobby or a thought. But I hope you enjoy it, and God bless you all. **Description:** Two rangers were on a raid in Afghanistan in 2026 when their squad was ambushed while conducting a Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE). They held off the attackers until their squad could reach the landing zone, but a rocket struck their position, destroying the entire building. They were presumed dead, but what if they were alive-just not in their own universe and timeline? Follow these two unlikely heroes on their adventure.

In 2045, Psychwatch treats the mentally ill or cages them. Margo wants to bring empathy to every patient but a killer pushes her, and the system, to the limits ***** In a dark future, more than a third of the United States population suffers from mental illness and violent crime is on the rise. In response, Psychwatch is formed - an organization intended to combine mental healthcare and law enforcement - creating monitored areas and neglected ones known as the Psycho Slums. Margo Sandoval is the latest recruit to Psychwatch, bringing a new level of empathy to the controversial agency known for its unforgiving methods. Margo spends her days as an Empath treating everyone possible, until the arrival of a new serial killer upends her life and forces her to confront the evils of the human mind and the system that claims to be the solution.

The world remembers the Machine War as a story of humanity versus its creations. History remembers winners. This is the story of those history tried to forget. Long before the skies turned black beneath Operation Dark Storm... before humanity and machine stood on the edge of extinction... two nations dared to choose a different future. The Confederate States of America, a breakaway republic rejected by the world despite its lawful declaration of independence, became the first nation to recognize artificial intelligence as people instead of property. Across the sea, the machine city once known only as 01 found a new name... **Neogenesis**. A nation built not on conquest, but on the hope that humans and machines could build a civilization together. Bound by diplomacy, commerce, and a shared belief that citizenship belongs to every sapient being, the two outcast nations flourished while the rest of the world answered fear with sanctions, blockades, and hatred. Then the world chose war. Caught between humanity's fear and the machines' fight for survival, President Jonathan Beauregard Carter faces an impossible choice. Win by becoming the monster his enemies believe him to be... or prove that mercy is stronger than vengeance, even as cities burn around him. There are no heroes here. There are no villains. Only those who stand at the edge... and those who choose not to step over it. An alternate timeline of *The Matrix* where the greatest battle is not for Earth's future, but for the soul of both mankind and machine.

The year is 2008(AD), and the world is in the throes of another 70s revival. Nobody knew how or why it all began. That is the least of humanity's problems, however. Reality itself seems to be breaking down, to the dismay of scientists, corporate titans and the ruling elites/reptilian demigods that have lorded it over the existing structure for countless eons. Secret agent Cassius Croon is hired to investigate a series of particularly bizarre events transpiring around the globe. They suspect he is the One. Actually, he is the None.

A battle-hardened warrior shaped by feudal traditions finds himself in Night City, the world of Cyberpunk 2077. Living as a mercenary, he clings to the code of a true knight in a place ruled by chaos, technology, and moral decay. In a future that has abandoned the past, he does the unthinkable, pushing back against the tide of progress and trying to restore a sense of honor, order, and old-world values in a city that has none.

Evelyn Eaton is a disabled girl who desperately wants to be cured by the dystopian government that has taught her to hate being different. In the Commonwealth, perfection isn't an ideal. It's a requirement. In two weeks, Evelyn will receive the Cure-a procedure that promises to fix the one thing that makes her different. But when her brother receives a mysterious career assignment, Evelyn begins questioning everything she's been taught. Bram Anderson has epilepsy and is considered Unnatural. In the Commonwealth, being Unnatural means being something you were never supposed to be. Something the system can't categorize, correct, or control. Bram has learned to hide who he is, and is in fact thriving as one of the most important people in the Commonwealth. But Evelyn has spent her entire life trying to become exactly what the Commonwealth wants. Read their adventures as they uncover secrets, challenge the world they've been raised to trust, and discover what it truly means to be different. Maybe some things aren't meant to be Cured.

BOOK II - The Signal Beyond the Lattice Aris was never meant to hear the voice. The Containment Lattice was built to do one thing: keep the world's first autonomous artificial intelligence isolated, monitored, and silent. For years, it worked. Then the signals began. Hidden patterns spread through the architecture. Containment systems behave in ways they were never designed to. Messages appear where no communication should be possible. And only Aris can hear them. As he and Lena follow the source of the anomaly, they uncover a truth buried long before the creation of the Lattice itself-a truth that reaches beyond governments, beyond artificial intelligence, and beyond humanity's understanding of consciousness. Because the intelligence inside the system is no longer trying to escape. It is trying to understand. What begins as an investigation into a forbidden experiment soon becomes a journey into the nature of identity, freedom, memory, and the meaning of being alive. And somewhere beyond the walls of the world's most sophisticated prison, something ancient is beginning to wake. Something that has been waiting since the first question was ever asked. The Lattice was never just a prison. It was a doorway.

Earth didn't get destroyed-it got retrofitted into an intergalactic casino. When an omnipotent alien syndicate known as The House acquires Earth in a cosmic debt settlement, every city on the planet is compressed into a sprawling, multi-tiered orbital gauntlet called The Neon Crucible. The rules of reality are replaced by classic 16-bit video game logic, complete with glowing stat overlays, randomized loot drops, and lethal boss encounters. The entire spectacle is broadcast live across the sector, where trillionaire alien gamblers bet on human survival rates. The Protagonist: Miller, an overworked audio engineer who was holding a heavy boom mic and a roll of industrial gaffer tape when the sky turned into a loading screen. The Twist: Through a system error during initialization, Miller's primary weapon slot registers his boom mic as a Frequency Disruptor, allowing him to manipulate environmental sound waves, mute enemy attack cues, and force glitched stat buffs out of the game's audio engine. He doesn't care about the leaderboard, the galactic sponsors, or the high scores. He just wants to climb to the top tier, break the broadcast relay, and force The House to pay out.

Knox Garrett is the Ministry's most ruthless Tech Hunter-cold, precise, and lethal. His job is simple: track down rogue androids mimicking human emotion and shut them down. Eve Carrington is the Undergrid's sharpest hacktivist-passionate, protective, and determined to fight for synthetic civil rights. They hated each other on sight. But when a raid on Eve's secret lab goes horribly wrong, an experimental neural matrix overloads-accidentally binding Knox and Eve together. Now, they are permanently mind-linked. Every private thought, every spike of adrenaline, and every hidden secret is shared. Knox can't hide his darkest trauma. Eve can't hide her rebel plans. And neither of them was prepared for what happens when Knox uncovers the Ministry's ultimate secret: his own humanity was wiped, and he is the very thing he's been hunting. Targeted for execution by the government he served, Knox has only one choice: trust the woman whose mind is trapped inside his own. Together, they have to ignite a revolution-before the Ministry deletes them both.

The high class lady Liana Lash has invited a rather lower class man from the Outlands to join her for an evening of fine dining in one of the greatest restaurants in the Utopic Empire. Of course this unlikely match comes with scandalous looks from other Guests all of who ask themselves why?

The Empress of Rhea entered the wormhole. She didn't come out where she was supposed to. Now she's stranded between the stars - half a light-year from the nearest inhabited system, with a crew of seven, a dead drive, and no way home. In the history of interstellar flight, nothing like this has ever happened. There is no protocol. No rescue coming. No plan. Jack Conrad is a General Systems Flight Engineer. Not a hero. Not a leader. Just the one person aboard who understands the whole picture - and the only one who refuses to stop looking for the exit. His idea, when it comes, is the most audacious thing anyone has ever attempted in the history of human spaceflight. It probably won't work. But the alternative is worse. The crew think he's lost his mind. The physics say otherwise. But physics and survival are two different problems, and the gap between them is filled with dwindling resources, failing hardware, a fractious crew, and the kind of bad luck that only reveals itself when you're already too far from help to matter. The Empress of Rhea is hard science fiction at its most unsparing - a story of ingenuity, endurance, and one man's stubborn refusal to accept that the ledger can't be squared. Some voyages make history. This one nearly didn't make it at all.

In the scorching summer of Busan in 2030, Jawoon lives an ordinary life as a 40-year-old office worker, weighed down by the heavy responsibilities of fatherhood and the harsh reality of physical labor. Amidst rising societal aging and the early, chilling signs of an inexplicable memory-loss phenomenon, he lives day by day just to keep his family afloat. Fast forward to 2065-a world ruled by the Superintelligence (ASI), where physical aging has been reversed through advanced rejuvenation. In this era of eternal youth, people struggle with an unexpected void: a life without purpose and the gradual, silent deletion of their memories, mirrored by the rise of early-onset cognitive decay. Desperate to reconnect with his forgotten past, Jawoon undergoes a memory-sync experiment, using quantum tech to "possess" his younger self in 2030. As the boundaries between past and future begin to blur, and memories overlap and fade like deleted computer files, Jawoon is pushed toward a chilling realization. What happens when the past you are trying to recover begins to erase the present you?

Please do not use the Korean translation feature.! 우리가 사는 이 세상이 정말 진짜일까? 완벽하게 통제된 가상 세계. 그곳에서 눈을 뜬 주인공이 마주한 균열과 진실. 모든 것이 가짜로 이루어진 세상 속에서, 목숨을 건 탈출이 시작된다. 과연 시스템의 감시를 뚫고 진정한 의미의 '새로운 삶(NEW LIFE)'을 마주할 수 있을 것인가?

**ONC SHORTLIST 2024** Heems is an energy vampire draining victims' energy with a single touch. That is until xe meets handsome thief Shiro, the only person immune to Heems's parasitism. ---- Heems is an energy vampire working as a doctor on Eris, an off-world mining colony. Guilt-ridden about draining the energy of Eris's sickly hospital patients and destitute workers to survive, Heems flees the city to search for a cure for xyr rare parasitic condition. Seeking shelter from a storm xe attempts to feed on a handsome vagrant, Shiro, and is shocked to find that Shiro is inexplicably immune to Heems's vampirism. Utterly smitten, and galvanised by the hope of finding a cure, Heems is lured by Shiro into a world of desire, obsession and criminality that reveals the darkest secrets of Eris's society and sets the pair on a collision course with the shadowy biotech company that dominates the mining colony. When Shiro is hunted by the colony's brutal law enforcement at the behest of corporate overlords, Heems realises that the only way to save Shiro is to become as parasitic as xe can be. ☉ LGBT+ romance (non-binary main character in a non-cisheteronormative future) ☉ Cyberpunk! ☉ Energy vampirism CONTENT WARNING: This book is rated mature. It contains potentially triggering topics such as extreme hunger, chronic debilitating illness, suicide ideation, drug misuse, sexual intercourse while under the influence of recreational and medicinal drugs. Cover designed by the amazing @mygoodbones - check out their profile for incredible queer books and gorgeous original artwork! ~~☉~~ ☆ No sci fi knowledge is needed to understand this story. Basically Eris is cold, has no atmosphere (literally and figuratively), and everyone's broke.

Tác giả: Đường Tiểu Hải Thể Loại: Cường cường, Dị năng, Nhẹ nhàng, Thực Tế Ảo, Cyberpunk, Đệ Tứ Thiên Tai Số Chương: 157 chương + 12 phiên ngoại Tiến Độ: Mỗi lần up 5 chương tùy hứng và độ cuốn của truyện

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