Bitstream

Bitstream is a story about memory: what it’s worth, what it costs, and what someone might do to steal it back. Rhea Steele wakes up under a bridge with no memory, a busted cybernetic arm, and a gut feeling she wasn’t supposed to survive whatever happened before. Neo Arcadia doesn’t have answers. It has junk markets, blackout zones, and half-dead men with machine eyes. But somewhere in the static, Rhea’s past is out there – and so is the person she’ll have to become to face it. On the other side of the city, Isolde Crane has stopped hoping the world might fix itself. She buried those hopes with someone very important to her. Now all that’s left is the chip: a stolen prototype that can override minds, rewrite systems, and gut the city from the inside out. If the rich and the righteous built this place, then she’ll be the one to pull the plug. One woman chasing truth. One woman chasing vengeance. And in the middle: a city full of dying gods, dirty data, and people who’ve lost more than they can afford to remember. The power’s surging. The bosses are watching. And everything that matters is about to burn. Author's Note: The novel you are considering to read is a very, very long cyberpunk story, and as of writing this note, it is not even near completion. In 2019, I scribbled a note on the back of a receipt that read: “What if a girl woke up in a city that had already forgotten her?” That one sentence sat dormant for years. And then, one day, I opened a blank document and began to chase her voice. Bitstream is the result of that chase. It is messy, cruel, vivid, and very strange. It asks a lot of its readers: patience, attention, and a willingness to sit with broken people in broken places. It’s a story about memory, control, and the choices we make when the world decides we don’t matter. I won't promise you that this story is a perfect representation of our world, or perfect at all, but from my own experience with corruption, I thought I'd try something big to illustrate things. Sometimes, that means taking over a thousand pages; sometimes it means taking over two thousand. In either case, I love Cyberpunk stories, and if you do too, you might enjoy it. It's not fast-paced. It's not witty or clever. It's just sci-fi, and sci-fi is fiction; whether you believe it or not, well, that's up to you. Now, where did I put that remote? - Rowdha Al Sol   Book One of The Warren Saga Updates every Saturday/Sunday