Edge Case (Coming 2026)
We have your boys.
As Lily makes ever-more desperate attempts to raise the ransom money, Joris Vaitkus is cursing the darknet datalake that matches targets to his client’s peccadillos. The two children he’s just kidnapped aren’t following the predictive algorithms' script. It looks like Vaitkus is about to discover what Lily’s feared for years:
One of those boys is an edge case.
A bleak postcyberpunk vision of a near-future Britain on the verge of economic apocalypse, where children are algorithmically commodified, law-and-order is an in-app purchase, and navigating your route to survival does not require a moral compass.
Calibration Run (2025)
A seedy cyberpunk novella, set in a morally derelict England where the only business left is entertainment, and even the vilest depravity can be monetised.
Suspected serial killer Erik Rubis wakes expecting a crude police interrogation VR. Yet instead of writhing in quasi-legal synthesised agony, he's reclined in a stunningly rendered bedroom with no sign of his adversary, DI Jordan.
As Rubis seeks out his high-res environment's boundary, the setup feels ever more real. But in 2062, when even emotions can be artificially induced, and intracranial augmentations are only a backstreet chopshop away, your senses really can't be trusted.
As it happens, Rubis can't be trusted either. He might not be guilty of Jordan's charges, but that doesn't mean he's innocent. And crossing boundaries is his speciality.
Calibration Run is a brutal exploration of the depths of human depravity in a world where sensoria shunt implants can translate digital environments directly to your central nervous system, and AI-directed transcranial electromagnetic stimulation can trigger whatever emotions you choose. Heaven's finally come to earth, but there's just one problem. Hell's come along for the ride.
Calibration Run is a brutal exploration of the depths of human depravity in a world where sensoria shunt implants can translate digital environments directly to your central nervous system, and AI-directed transcranial electromagnetic stimulation can trigger whatever emotions you choose. Heaven's finally come to earth, but there's just one problem. Hell's come along for the ride.