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by Philip Bishop
The Psiberpunk Saga. In a city of chrome psiware and genetic splicing, Kell is a dead man walking. Diagnosed with a terminal disease, his nerves are crystalizing, and his only hope is a daily cocktail of corporate suppressants. But when the coins run out and the medicine stops, Kell is faced with challenges he could only imagine. As the Spires bleed the world dry, perhaps his illness can also be his greatest strength. *** Please check out Creative Catastrophe Games to see my other work, Wonderland: Nightmares & Dreamscapes.People have asked how I use AI and its pretty limited to character names. I'm awful at naming characters and I ask AI to suggest character names. I reject most because they're the same names (Elara, Lyra, Thorne, Jax, etc.) but eventually I get it right. And that's it. I heard AI can now watermark text and I'm all for this. I have written every single sentence in this work.
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #5
2d
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #35
2d
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #13
2d
#11
8/4/2026
Peak #39
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8/3/2026
Peak #49
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Rank updated 14 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 14 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#1483 of 6,880 · 1433 below #50
By genre
beats 92% of similar stories
beats 76% of similar stories
beats 52% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
At this conversion, the Fantasy Rising Stars bar (≈10 new followers/day) costs about 1.5k views/day — the story currently gets ~144.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.