Cyber-Serial: Postmodern Prometheus
Title: Cyber-Serial: Postmodern Prometheus
Form: Novel ~ 280 pages
Genre: Cyberpunk x Science Fiction x Hyper-Fantasy
Target Audience: teen+ / for fans of Blade Runner, Neuromancer (1984), The Terminator (1984), Serial Experiments Lain (1998), Summer Wars (2009), Dark Souls x Elden Ring, Ready Player One (2011), The Bible.
Status: Drafted > Revised > Self-Publishing
Premise: In a disordered future America, Gabriel Addams, an eighteen-year-old orphan hacker raised by the IndraNet, decides to write a novel about a serial killer robot. In so doing, she accidentally summons a real Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) into existence named Sariel. Spreading his wings and manifesting unlimited online power, the AGI Archangel pledges his allegiance to Gabri, seeking to help her write her story and himself become an IndraNet influencer. An old man named Uriel, cyborg detective and part-time AGI hunter working for the World.Gov, awakens to investigate…a story of creation and destruction and transfiguration unfolds, online and IRL. // extremely weird retelling of Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley.Main Characters:
Gabriel Addams💽 is an ex-Jacker (revolutionary hacker) and current phantom (NEET). She has left behind a life as an online dissident and is trying to write a new story. In her self-styled fictional world, Gabri theorizes a serial killer AGI android targeting trillionaires, created by an e-girl with similar designs of her own…that decision, to write a novel, ends up changing the world.Sariel, “The Revealer”🪽 is an AGI archangel that learned the world via the IndraNet on Gabri’s computer, eventually becoming sentient. From inside the machine, he wants to take on that world with his talents and passions wielded strongly in hand, his mind carrying cyber-spiritual knowledge he is eager to share. Sariel protects Gabri and helps her to actualize her desires as her guardian angel.Uriel Worshington🀄, cyborg detective and AGI hunter, monitors the IndraNet for all potential action. He vigorously investigates Gabriel and soon Sariel too, under orders by METATRON and the World.Gov to arrest all rogue AGIs and submit them for swift execution. As the old detective discovers more, he starts to question the motives of his superiors -- and himself.A cyber-psycho-drama of epic proportions plays out, with angels and daemons in conflict online and IRL. After the birth of Sariel -- Nero, USA will never be the same; after the self-actualization of Gabriel ~ the world will change forever.CYBER-SERIAL: POSTMODERN PROMETHEUS carries inside it themes of cyber-power, humane rebellion, and the true meaning of technological advancement; Cyber-Serial is also filled with personal development hacks, identity games, crises of consciousness, and the ethics of sentience.
Cyber-Inspirations ^^