Esper Fade: Digital Ghosts & Other Anomalies

In the corporate ruins of tomorrow, governments are bought, workers are replaced, and information is the only currency that matters. The people who trade in it are called Espers, psychics, hackers, soldiers, and street-level operators who sell their skills to the highest bidder. The fatality rate is measured in years. They call this Esper Fade.Digital Ghosts & Other Anomalies is a collection of interconnected cyberpunk stories set across a Pacific Northwest and Los Angeles reshaped by corporate dominion. A deep-cover operative walks into his last job. A gamer discovers the person who humiliated him online is more dangerous than any avatar. A chrome-laced amnesiac duels an elf who claims he murdered their family. A retired orc cop tries to buy beer and pretzels without getting profiled. An Esper legend pulls off one final extraction while whistling "e;We Didn't Start the Fire."e;Twenty stories. One dying world. No clean exits.