A Bioscanner Darkly
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In 1933, Howard Scott co-founded Technocracy, Inc., which proposed a plan to control the daily life of all citizens using technology. Fast forward to the future, and the government has declared a series of global disasters, necessitating the consolidation of power into the hands of a few monopolists, who promptly declare that for the cyberproles’ good, strict daily limits to all human activities and bodily functions will be set and measured. Every fart, sneeze, step, stare, sigh, word, whack off session, sexual encounter, every use of electricity, gas, or water, down to the most minute portion, every mouthful of food people eat, the water they drink, every sip of alcohol.
As if this wasn’t bad enough, the cyberproles are divided into castes based on the color and shape of their genitals, while the monopolists’ media companies incite hatred against the lower castes.
Enter Joe, a member of the lowest, most hated caste in society, a Pale Penis, hellbent on escaping the monotony of this dystopic existence. One day, Joe casually wonders what it would be like if life were like a Philip K. Dick novel, jumping around from point of view to point of view, getting inside everyone's head. When mere moments later a strange man in an alleyway offers him a drug, claiming it will turn him into Philip K. Dick for a night, he starts to realize you must be careful what you wish for, as things start to become more like a PKD novel than he could ever have imagined. Things take a turn for the worse when he realizes the entire world is in danger, as this technocratic nightmare has awoken an ancient, cosmic entity intent on turning the entire planet to kipple, and with Joe’s newfound abilities, he is the only person in the world able to reach the one man able to save the world from total disaster...
But will he make it in time? Can humanity save itself from the technological prison it has created for itself? Or is it already too late?
James Brighton's debut novel, A Bioscanner Darkly, is many things at once. Philip K Dick parody, absurdist dark comedy, and warning about the dystopic side of technology. Dark, surreal, and absurd, A Bioscanner Darkly, plunges us into a world that isn't quite what it seems. A biting social satire exposing the hypocrisy of Hollywood, A Bioscanner Darkly serves as the perfect Brighton gateway drug. About 220 print pages. ©2022 James Brighton
A Bioscanner Darkly
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In 1933, Howard Scott co-founded Technocracy, Inc., which proposed a plan to control the daily life of all citizens using technology. Fast forward to the future, and the government has declared a series of global disasters, necessitating the consolidation of power into the hands of a few monopolists, who promptly declare that for the cyberproles’ good, strict daily limits to all human activities and bodily functions will be set and measured. Every fart, sneeze, step, stare, sigh, word, whack off session, sexual encounter, every use of electricity, gas, or water, down to the most minute portion, every mouthful of food people eat, the water they drink, every sip of alcohol.
As if this wasn’t bad enough, the cyberproles are divided into castes based on the color and shape of their genitals, while the monopolists’ media companies incite hatred against the lower castes.
Enter Joe, a member of the lowest, most hated caste in society, a Pale Penis, hellbent on escaping the monotony of this dystopic existence. One day, Joe casually wonders what it would be like if life were like a Philip K. Dick novel, jumping around from point of view to point of view, getting inside everyone's head. When mere moments later a strange man in an alleyway offers him a drug, claiming it will turn him into Philip K. Dick for a night, he starts to realize you must be careful what you wish for, as things start to become more like a PKD novel than he could ever have imagined. Things take a turn for the worse when he realizes the entire world is in danger, as this technocratic nightmare has awoken an ancient, cosmic entity intent on turning the entire planet to kipple, and with Joe’s newfound abilities, he is the only person in the world able to reach the one man able to save the world from total disaster...
But will he make it in time? Can humanity save itself from the technological prison it has created for itself? Or is it already too late?
James Brighton's debut novel, A Bioscanner Darkly, is many things at once. Philip K Dick parody, absurdist dark comedy, and warning about the dystopic side of technology. Dark, surreal, and absurd, A Bioscanner Darkly, plunges us into a world that isn't quite what it seems. A biting social satire exposing the hypocrisy of Hollywood, A Bioscanner Darkly serves as the perfect Brighton gateway drug. About 220 print pages. ©2022 James Brighton
Mind Grid
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In 1969, Jose Delgado wrote Physical Control of the Mind: Towards a Psychocivilized Society, in which he explains how electronics implanted in the brain can control the mind. Fast forward to the future, and all humans have a Brain Computer Interface, and their brains are connected to the internet at all times. And...the internet is run by Earth's wonderful saviors, the mighty Corporations. What could go wrong?
Enter Drake Lively, a Reality Fixer. Growing up in a world where humans are indoctrinated to be asexual, and even the intentional thought of sex is punishable by having one's mind uploaded to the cloud, to endure never-ending psychic torment, Drake's job is to make sure that even the slightest anomalies, such as residual sexual memories, or doubts in the beloved Corporate Saviors, are promptly removed and the person's reality is restored to its government-mandated normal.
But what happens when even the Reality Fixer's reality needs to be fixed? When Drake makes a not-so-permitted intimate mental contact with a female patient, things start to get incredibly dangerous incredibly fast. But never mind that his digitized mind might be forced to endure unending torture, because soon he finds out things are about to get a lot worse for all of mankind, who won't just have to deal with being banned from sex or treasonous thoughts, but will instead become the literal puppets of the Corporate Saviors, who are about to take technological manipulation of the mind to a whole new level.
Welcome to Mind Grid.
In the future, there is only control.
James Brighton's first sprawling sci-fi epic, Mind Grid, eschews the traditional approach in sci-fi of focusing on outer space, and instead explores the vast complexities of the human mind. The second novel in Brighton's Social Satire Trilogy--thematically related novels that can be read in any order--Mind Grid dials up the satire, absurdism and surrealism to new heights. At over 500 pages, Mind Grid delves deeper than any Brighton novel yet and provides hours of mind-bending entertainment to a growing cult of Brighton addicts.
About 550 print pages. ©2023 James Brighton
Warcar Apocalypse
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Meet Bax, a child of the Never Ending Apocalypse. He and his fellow Normericans have never known anything but continual war, each of the splintered Republics fighting to retain control over their territory for more than thirty years now, with no end in sight…
Bax only had two loves in this world. When one of them is raped, murdered, and left in a ditch by a warbike gang, who themselves were destroyed a few days later by a rival gang, only one love remained…
The beautiful machine.
He had only shipped off to Afghanistan because the only girl he ever cared about told him she’d only date a man in uniform. But now she is nothing more than rotting remains, and his sanity is teetering on the brink of infinity inside his war-ravaged brain.
Left with only one companion on these lonely highways, his A.I.-powered steed—three and a half tons of steel, electrodes, and enough firepower to start a small war—Bax has nothing left to live for and everything to die for.
Bax was more than just a runner, more than just a smooth warrior behind the wheel, ready to take on a run for a few creds. More than one of the very few people left in Normerica crazy enough to brave the vast territory outside the safety of the megacities, flowing freely across the war-torn continent, rubber gripping the road and finger gripping the trigger. He was all these things, but much, much more.
He was a philosopher, trying to find meaning in this fucked up world.
And he did his philosophizing with twin vulcan machine guns, a touchsceen windshield, and guided mini-missiles. Eat your heart out Nietzsche.
But when he is approached by a mysterious client to a do a run through Hellfire Canyon and to the New Britain-controlled Eastern Seaboard, Bax is about to face his ultimate test.
Nobody gets out of Hellfire Canyon alive.
Nobody.
Sounds like the perfect job.
In Warcar Apocalypse, James Brighton has revolutionized the beloved cult classic subgenre of sci-fi, Car Combat, by welding it together with Cyberpunk and created a cyborg: Cyberpunk Car Combat. For the first time in the history of the genre, car combat is fully cyberized, and things are about to get trippy. Chock-full of over-the-top sci-fi action like you’ve never seen it before, and infused with a generous dose of Brighton’s signature surrealism, Warcar Apocalypse takes a darker plunge than any of his novels yet into the tragic despair of digital drug addiction, and the hidden dangers of merging man with machine.
A novella at about 55 print pages, soon to be expanded to a full-length novel ©2024 James Brighton
The Thought Dentist
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The ancient progenitors of mankind, homo sapiens primativus, in their dark, benighted state, unable to reach salvation by themselves, had had to use clumsy external smartphones to connect to the source of all life and nourishment, the Net.
But their saviors, the Corporations, had saved mankind.
Smartphones were now inside the body of a new race of humans, a superior race, homo sapiens corporatus. Thus, mankind was now connected to their saviors 24/7. In addition to life-saving Reality Mediation, citizens were also now able to engage in various mental activities and games with other citizens, such as the temporary but intense Brain Meld, as well as ultra high bandwidth Imaginative Mentation. Of course, various lighter, lower bandwidth forms of these were also available on the Net, as all homo sapiens corporatus were connected at all times to one another, and to their Corporate Saviors.
Blayze, a precocious, curious young man who wants to learn everything there is to learn, makes a routine visit to his mental clinic. Mental hygiene, as the Saviors always say, is the foundation of a healthy lifestyle. Blayze relishes the opportunity to chat with his mentist every chance he gets, and to look at all that beautiful shiny mental equipment. He finds it so strange that ancient human beings had had people called dentists, who had apparently cleaned and repaired people’s teeth. That was before everyone had perfect, vat-grown artificial teeth from childhood, which didn’t get cavities or have plaque buildup, and which grew up in sync with the body’s own natural growth process.
So you can imagine Blayze’s joy when his normal mentist is on maternity leave and he gets Dr. Richards, a loquacious and extremely knowledgeable professional of the highest caliber…a new brain for Blayze to pick! But when Blayze asks one too many questions, Dr. Richards’ mood suddenly turns sour. What started as a pleasant routine checkup seems to be quickly turning into something more sinister. Wait, why are they strapping me back into the mental chair? Wasn’t the visit over?
Introducing The Thought Dentist…is your mind clean enough for the government?
The Thought Dentist is the novelette that started it all. At a mere 13k words, it was later expanded into the sprawling cerebral sci-fi epic, Mind Grid, at 193k words (about the same length as Frank Herbert’s Dune.) The Thought Dentist serves as the perfect introduction to the world of Mind Grid, and to the quirky, surreal worlds of James Brighton fiction. 38 print pages. ©2022 James Brighton
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