Neosynthesis: 12 Stories of Code, Consciousness, and Survival

These visions explore the myriad realms where humanity and technology intersect, taking readers to distant futures where human and machine exist in uneasy symbiosis, to worlds both grim and wondrous, where survival depends on getting the upper hand.

• A woman’s passage into a digital afterlife where nothing, not even the self, remains fixed.
• A hunted hacker in a surveillance-saturated future seeks revenge, only to find he’s the one being played.
• Two stranded cyborg soldiers struggle to hold onto what’s left of their humanity.

Written by six independent voices in Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction—among them award winners and members of organizations such as SFWA, IASFA, BFA, and SFI—these compelling stories offer glimpses into all-too-plausible realities.