Reviews
"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."
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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."
"The universe is vivid, well built, and cleverly connected to real-world themes. The story pulls you in quickly and leaves you wanting more."