Cyberpunk, technology, storytelling https://neosynth.net en Arise https://neosynth.net/config/favicon/favicon.ico https://neosynth.net 60 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:30:20 +0000 Neon The digital revolution and its consequences have been a kind of new enlightenment for human society. https://neosynth.net/posts/the-digital-citizen/ Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Neon A security practice that is so powerful, so impenetrable, that it is safe from any known or even theoretically imagined computer for trillions of years. https://neosynth.net/posts/data-lifecycle-becoming-unhackable/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Neon It's not the classic music or the quirky fifties costumes that make Fallout so memorable. https://neosynth.net/posts/fallout-4-that-could-have-been/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Neon A discussion of the writing system used in "lekis kojfo", a fictional language spoken in the scifi universe of The Zeta Directive. https://neosynth.net/posts/alaja-writing-lekis-kojfo/ Sat, 04 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Our first contact with aliens is not in space. https://neosynth.net/posts/first-contact/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Neon A tool for rendering text in Lekis Kojfo script from the scifi universe of The Zeta Directive. https://neosynth.net/posts/lekis-kojfo-text-converter/ Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Debut album of AI generated electronic music by neonspectra — 8 tracks and their associated stories https://neosynth.net/posts/vacuum-in-the-sky/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Neon What's old is new again: the story of the Neosynth site redesign https://neosynth.net/posts/new-neosynth/ Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Reflections, musings, and takeaways from six years working on an unfinished novel https://neosynth.net/posts/it-changed-along-the-way/ Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Neon A discussion of best practices when writing science fiction stories https://neosynth.net/posts/seven-rules-for-scifi-writers/ Sat, 20 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Neon We can come together to build a better world for the artists and historians of tomorrow by protecting their right to do what they can with the ideas we create today. https://neosynth.net/posts/copyright-the-death-of-tomorrow/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Experiments on comprehensively addressing the complex epistemology of inner experience https://neosynth.net/posts/monika-context-engineering-presentation/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Neon The crackle of metal being sliced open with superheated plasma was audible even from the other side of the airlock door, followed by a loud metallic clatter and then silence. https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-3/ Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Neon In time, her broken heart would heal stronger than it had ever been before, readjusting to her newfound reality. https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-8/ Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Neon The cutting-edge industrialists of today had departed, entrusting the world of tomorrow to the skeletons left in their closet. https://neosynth.net/fiction/vox-paenitentia/ Sat, 23 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Something strange hit me... I don't know you anymore. https://neosynth.net/fiction/remember-the-time/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Fiir's confrontation with the Terran girl had left her with much to think about. The young primate was both a curiosity and a complication. A deeply frustrating one, at that. https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-6/ Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Neon The truth was out there, right in front of her eyes. https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive/ Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Sometimes she liked to think about who might have lived in all these old buildings that the Peacekeepers ordered them to tear apart. The empty towering ivory skyscrapers had a heavenly radiance to them in the brilliant white light of the Kojfo sun. https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-9/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Neon gridden lines converged from the periphery of Fiir's vision, creating a wireframe rendition of the room that she occupied.... https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-4/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Neon It was a maze of tunnels and hallways down here, dimly lit and dread-inducing. The flashlight attachment on my rifle was my one light in the darkness... https://neosynth.net/fiction/close-encounters/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Neon A diplomat's daughter is entangled in an international conspiracy that runs lightyears deeper than she ever could have imagined. https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-2/ Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Neon In the far future of 2185 a legendary foe awaits. https://neosynth.net/fiction/a-legendary-raid-in-the-shadows/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Colossal ivory-white high-rise towers sprawled in all directions, glistening in the sunlight as a monument to a breathtaking antediluvian metropolis. https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-5/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Josh took his face into his hands and wept. Earth was still ruled by those slimy alien bastards, and no one would ever even *believe* him, much less do anything about it. https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-12/ Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Josh panned and zoomed the camera to get a better look at the ominous disk-shaped vessel. Smoke billowed from the craft, obscuring it near completely on the optical spectrum... https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-10/ Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Your trusted source for the latest headlines and new developments in the fight to preserve freedom and independence for humanity. https://invicta.neosynth.net Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Josh gritted his teeth. "Fuck you, ma'am." https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-11/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Neon A shining star in the darkness, some glimpses of the light are lost into eternity, only to be known by the gods themselves... https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-dreamer/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Neon She smiled back to me supportively with an enthusiastic pearlescent glow in her captivating cerulean eyes. "Prithee, it lights my soul to see your invention shapen before me, my lady." https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-veiled-maiden/ Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Neon The bridge of the ship felt more like a space-age information bunker than a control centre for piloting a cutting-edge starship... https://neosynth.net/fiction/the-zeta-directive-section-7/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Call me DJ. The full name's kind of a mouthful. https://neosynth.net/fiction/spin-the-record/ Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Neon Mercenary operative Viyan Yousefi is swept into a diplomatic encounter with mysterious implications. https://neosynth.net/fiction/evolved-diplomacy/ Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000