#technothriller

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Headline: "Cassandra's Shadow" is climbing the charts - and it’s all thanks to you! Dear readers and friends, I am thrilled to

Headline: "Cassandra's Shadow" is climbing the charts - and it’s all thanks to you! Dear readers and friends, I am thrilled to share some ex

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On October 25, 2005, Hackers was released on UMD for the PSP.

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Shining a Light on the Darkness: Exploring the Terrifying Realities of "Monsters in the Light"

Shining a Light on the Darkness: Exploring the Terrifying Realities of "Monsters in the Light"

This isn't a tale of fantastical creatures or otherworldly beings. The monsters in Monsters in the Light are all too human – corrupt law enforcement officers who, driven by their own twisted motives, engage in the unlawful surveillance of an innocent family.

Their sinister goal isn't just to watch; it's a calculated effort to plant evidence, to fabricate a reality that suits their own dark agenda.

Living in a place like Small town, Alabama, there's a sense of connection, a feeling that you know your neighbors, that the people sworn to protect and serve are just that. But what happens when that trust is shattered?

What happens when the very individuals meant to uphold the law become the ones who are breaking it, preying on the vulnerable under the cloak of authority?

This is the unsettling premise that drives Monsters in the Light. It's a story that taps into a deep-seated fear: the betrayal of trust by those in positions of power. It forces us to confront the uncomfortable reality that corruption can fester even in the most familiar settings, and that the fight for justice can sometimes begin right next door.

The narrative follows a family in Alabama, as they slowly come to realize they are being watched, not for any wrongdoing of their own, but as pawns in a dangerous game orchestrated by those who should be their protectors. The tension builds not through jump scares or supernatural events, but through the insidious creep of paranoia, the erosion of privacy, and the desperate struggle to prove their innocence against a fabricated narrative.

Monsters in the Light is more than just a thriller; it's an exploration of:

The Fragility of Trust: How easily can our faith in authority be broken, and what are the consequences?

The Abuse of Power: What happens when those sworn to protect use their authority for personal gain and malicious intent?

The Fight for Justice in Your Own Backyard: When the system is working against you, where do you turn?

While the story is fictional, the underlying themes resonate with real-world concerns about police corruption and the potential for abuse. Set against the backdrop of a close-knit community like Brilliant, Alabama, the betrayal feels even more personal, the stakes even higher.

If you're looking for a psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat while also prompting you to think about the realities of power and justice in our society, I invite you to delve into the darkness of Monsters in the Light.

You can find your copy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMLD9L44

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C'est la cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux Olympiques.

1 milliard de connectés.

1 catastrophe mondiale.

C'est ainsi que commence Virtuels, un techno-thriller palpitant entre le metaverse et la réalité d'un monde qui s'effondre.

Une duologie aux éditions Kelach écrite par Rodolphe Le Dorner.

Virt(u)els

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein

You probably know Izzy Wasserstein from her short fiction, but today I’m thrilled to have her on the site to reveal the cover of her very first novella, These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart, releasing March 12, 2024 from Tachyon Publications! Here’s the story: In a queer, noir technothriller of fractured identity and corporate intrigue, a trans woman faces her fear of losing her community as…

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Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm

Marcus Yallow + 50 Years = Marty Hench?

The story of Marty’s generation of technologists— and mine, the one that came afterward — is that we overestimated the liberatory power of technology and ignored its risks.

This is a profoundly ahistorical view: no one writes (or reads) cyberpunk because they think it’s all gonna be fine. And no one founds — or works for — an organization like the Electronic Frontier Foundation because they’re confident that technology can only be used for good.

A better way to talk about that era is to contrast Marty and Marcus. Both still hold out hope for better technology, and both are committed to making it happen, but Marcus is still new to the fight, full of energy, unscarred by bruising defeats in the long fight for human liberation.

Marty, by contrast, is 40 years into the struggle, and he’s watched tech devolve into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four.”

Marcus is fighting to keep what he has; Marty is fighting to get back what he lost.

-Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm: Marcus Yallow + 50 Years = Marty Hench?

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A ultima parte do capitulo 5 de Echoes foi lançada! (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1291330464-echoes-cap%C3%ADtulo-5-parte-3?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=L-Wani&wp_originator=eILn8809EigWmHxJdc2thDIbDX3jP0hoa6jlVlzhrgTEFIEJGJdnjxwQlnGFVOoroaKJeUQ4XethiF1twueG4e4DSf0RPPV%2BT46PFdH3X3ymfF4PjaiPAl6JfIwB8RNR Num futuro distópico aonde corporações controlam todo o andar de um pais, em uma cidade em que tudo pode desde que você não seja pego, Amellya vai à Echoe City a procura de uma pessoa.

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Her Violet Empire #1 (Title Coming Soon)

I thought as an introduction to my work, I'd post a snippet of the Prologue of my first book. It was released with the title Her Violet Empire, but I'm planning to relaunch it in the new year with a new title. Anyway, here's a couple hundred words to spark some interest.

Sebastian Taylor hated his first name and allowed no one to use it. Many suggested that he should use his middle name instead, but, in his estimation, Friedrich was a less-than-significant improvement. He insisted everyone call him Taylor. The dreary afternoon in Felixstowe crept toward a dreary evening. The sky seemed unable to decide if it was going to rain or not; instead, it proffered only a noncommittal drizzle. The damp never crossed Taylor’s mind anymore—it was always wet in some form or another here, and he had acclimatized to it. The docks had become busy since the Chiarbola arrived, but this was the natural and happy state of a container port. Forklifts and gantry cranes hummed their diesel tunes, punctuated by the heavy, echoing clank of the shipping containers hitting their marks. As he strolled through the stacks, supervising the effort, he waved acknowledgments at the passing drivers and stopped to chat with a clutch of stevedores, who were awaiting the next lorry on which to load a shipment. “Evenin’ Mr. Taylor. Dreadful night shapin’ up, eh?” one worker said. “Not to worry, Thompson. You’ve already grown all the mold you’re likely to,” Taylor replied in jest. Thompson grinned an unpleasant grin. Taylor had never sussed out whether it was the expression that was unpleasant or the face that wore it, but, either way, it seemed affable enough. He was about to continue his stroll on the docks when a klaxon sounded. Raised, shouting voices erupted from behind him. He spun to find the source and spotted one of the nearer container cranes flashing with warning lights. He fished the radio out of his pocket and turned up the sound. The chatter came fast and furious, and was almost indecipherable as English, but he could make out a couple of things: someone unauthorized was on Crane 4 and the container it held was now loose. He didn’t remember starting into a full sprint, but that’s where he found himself, heaving toward the crane as fast as his legs would carry him. He looked ahead and up and saw the container dangling from the crane. It didn’t take a trained eye to spot that this was no accident, even though he was well below the massive, pivoting load. Something or someone had let two of the twist locks go on the spreader. Not good. The spreader wouldn’t hold a fully laden container on only two for long before they would shear off. If the container let go, the spreader, the container, the cargo, and the crane itself would all be total losses. He pictured the scenarios playing out in his mind as he ran and envisioned the crane toppling onto the deck of the ship. As the supervisor on duty, he could allow none of this to happen. He had almost reached the crane’s base when he first noticed a pair of armed security men already climbing up the access ladders. One of them had gotten thirty feet up when Taylor hit the deck. “Did I trip?” he thought. He heard a man yell just before the second gunshot. When he lifted his head, the security men both lay motionless on the concrete under the ladder. “Why is someone shooting people on my docks?”

Let me know what you think!