Shadow Decade

Having published the fifth Galvanic Century book, Ghosts of Shaolin, I’m going to take a break and work on a new series, Shadow Decade.

It isn’t that I’m bored of steampunk. Far from it. I’ll be putting out the sixth Galvanic Century book, A Sacred Space, later this year. But I do like writing other things too, and Shadow Decade will be cyberpunk.

Looking back on a Shadow Decade

Obviously I can’t give away too much yet, mostly because it hasn’t been written yet, but in a broad sense Shadow Decade is going to tell the story of a woman stranded in the future and trying to rediscover her past.

Erica Crawford wakes up in 2025 with no memory of the past ten years. She has no idea what she’s been up to, and neither does the hospital, the police, or anyone else. There are no records, and as far as her friends and family are concerned, she just disappeared one day.

2025 is a very different world than 2015 was, and in addition to her sense of personal alienation, Erica has to deal with a world in which she has no place. She has no money, no career, no context for a world where culture-shock is as common as the flu, where surveillance drones darken the skies, where even your toaster is an internet portal.

Someone is lying to her. Someone knows something.

Someone wants her dead, and she doesn’t even know why.

Shadow Decade is a story of isolation, of alienation, of depersonalization and the persistence of memory. It’s about identity, about how we categorize ourselves by context… and what we fall back on when that context is taken away from us.

I’m looking forward to writing it, and I hope you’ll look forward to reading it.

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