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[I apologise for the below confusion; this section has been modified and the excerpt has been moved to its own thread and the title updated to remove ambiguity.]
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An excerpt can be found here.
Title: Anima Nova
Genre: Cyberpunk/Crime
Word Count: 66k *
Content disclaimer:
As per the title, this is a cyberpunk novel and as such deals with themes typical to the genre.
The manuscript contains profanity, violence, drug usage and sexual references (including implied sex scenes and references to sexual violence).
Blurb:
The Pyrite family built Surface Corporation from the ground up. In a sense, they built Anima Nova itself, as since the beginning of its history, Surface has been the city's immovable keystone.
To the Pyrites, C is just another faceless special agent serving under Surface's Security branch. C never thought of that as a bad thing. Being a nobody is a good way to keep your head on your shoulders.
Yet C’s fate takes a turn when his boss wants to undermine a rival by having C steal sensitive evidence regarding a recent heist on Polytechnica, where Surface houses a multi-trillion bitdollar supercomputer. This plan goes sideways and C finds himself having to drop his luxurious corporate life to flee from Surface’s remorseless Head of Security.
Deciding his only chance to live is to solve the Polytechnica case by himself and present his findings to Surface, C soon realises he stands at the tip of a much deeper reaching conspiracy. It involves a plot to crush Surface and overthrow the Pyrite family, a mysterious but highly skilled hacker called Cyphris, and a technology to bring back the dead.
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* 66k words with an asterisk: This manuscript is incomplete. The first 51k works can be read fluently. The manuscript then becomes peppered with holes, with bits connected by synopsis-like sections to fill out the missing sections. At the end, I write how I intend the novel to reach a conclusion.
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An excerpt can be found here.
Title: Anima Nova
Genre: Cyberpunk/Crime
Word Count: 66k *
Content disclaimer:
As per the title, this is a cyberpunk novel and as such deals with themes typical to the genre.
The manuscript contains profanity, violence, drug usage and sexual references (including implied sex scenes and references to sexual violence).
Blurb:
The Pyrite family built Surface Corporation from the ground up. In a sense, they built Anima Nova itself, as since the beginning of its history, Surface has been the city's immovable keystone.
To the Pyrites, C is just another faceless special agent serving under Surface's Security branch. C never thought of that as a bad thing. Being a nobody is a good way to keep your head on your shoulders.
Yet C’s fate takes a turn when his boss wants to undermine a rival by having C steal sensitive evidence regarding a recent heist on Polytechnica, where Surface houses a multi-trillion bitdollar supercomputer. This plan goes sideways and C finds himself having to drop his luxurious corporate life to flee from Surface’s remorseless Head of Security.
Deciding his only chance to live is to solve the Polytechnica case by himself and present his findings to Surface, C soon realises he stands at the tip of a much deeper reaching conspiracy. It involves a plot to crush Surface and overthrow the Pyrite family, a mysterious but highly skilled hacker called Cyphris, and a technology to bring back the dead.
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* 66k words with an asterisk: This manuscript is incomplete. The first 51k works can be read fluently. The manuscript then becomes peppered with holes, with bits connected by synopsis-like sections to fill out the missing sections. At the end, I write how I intend the novel to reach a conclusion.
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