C Wakefield

I write speculative fiction about systems that have learned how to watch, record, and correct the people living inside them. My work is rooted in cyberpunk and dystopian traditions, but it is less interested in gadgets than in what happens when belief, bureaucracy, and identity become infrastructure.

My primary setting is Erebus Prime—an awake megacity shaped by corporate governance, engineered faith, and algorithmic control. Across the EXILENET universe, stories unfold as pressure tests: on individuals, institutions, and the narratives they’re trained to trust. Power is rarely loud. Control is rarely obvious. Resistance often arrives disguised as compliance.

EXILENET is built as a connected signal: novels, in-universe music (RΞCΛNT), and broadcast artifacts designed to deepen immersion rather than market a brand. I publish serially and deliberately, favoring continuity and accumulation over spectacle. These stories reward attention, rereading, and discomfort. They are not designed to reassure. They are designed to linger.