Jon Richter, author of Auxiliary
Gritty, gripping, visceral and nasty - with a particularly memorable corporate pep-talk! I thoroughly enjoyed this novella and look forward to more from Phil’s new cyberpunk universe.
Reviews, Podcasts and Articles
Review on Amazon
The universe is vivid, well built, and cleverly connected to real-world themes. The story pulls you in quickly and leaves you wanting more.
Matt Adcock, author of Complete Darkness
There’s a particular flavour of cyberpunk that doesn’t care about neon cool, trench coats, or whether your katana glows in the dark. It just wants to drag you face-first through a poison corporate sewer and leave your nervous system twitching in an alley somewhere behind a biotech nightclub. Phil Stitelmann’s Dissociation Delirium is very much that.
Be warned: This is mean little fiction. Lean, poisoned, angry and excitingly - just the start of a series!!
Elisa S. Alpha Reader
"Read all 4 books in their first version. I cried and I laughed, I bled with these characters. Loved it."
Elaine Sturgess, Publisher at BooksOffice.com
"Digital Gods and Fallen Angels is a masterpiece in development."
Pierre-Yves D.
"I've read a lot of sci-fi. This one takes the cake."
REVIEWS
Hosts in the Shell Podcast
Jon Richter, Matt Adcock and Phil Stitelmann discussed the cyberpunk movie Elysium and Phil Stitelmann's debut novella, Dissociation Delirium, along with the rest of his upcoming cyberpunk saga, Digital Gods and Fallen Angels!
Listen to the podcast here: https://hostsintheshell.buzzsprout.com/1930485/episodes/19442671-elysium-with-phil-stitelmann
Matt Adcock: Author of Complete Darkness
"There’s a particular flavour of cyberpunk that doesn’t care about neon cool, trench coats, or whether your katana glows in the dark. It just wants to drag you face-first through a poison corporate sewer and leave your nervous system twitching in an alley somewhere behind a biotech nightclub. Phil Stitelmann’s Dissociation Delirium is very much that.
Be warned: This is mean little fiction. Lean, poisoned, angry and excitingly - just the start of a series!!
Stitelmann takes the well-worn cyberpunk staples, including augmentation, burnout, corporate ownership of the soul and strips away the romanticism until all that’s left is panic sweat and malfunctioning meat. Think cybernetic psychosis and identity fracture with a kind of grim conviction that feels spiritually descended from early Neuromancer alleyways, filtered through the body-horror migraines of David or Brendan Cronenberg.
What really works is the nastiness of it all. Every page feels like somebody trying jam an infected neural link directly into the skull."
READ THE WHOLE REVIEW AND INTERVIEW HERE: https://darkmatt.blogspot.com/2026/06/dissociation-delirium-review-and-phil.html
Reviews from Amazon:
"A descent into corporate madness that leaves you feeling like you need a psychological evaluation, and will have you look differently at the NPCs in the cyberpunk genre."
"Gritty, gripping, visceral and nasty - with a particularly memorable corporate pep-talk! I thoroughly enjoyed this novella and look forward to more from Phil’s new cyberpunk universe."