In Bay City, America's first corporate-owned megalopolis, the neural implant everyone wants is called the MyHUD.And Phil Schooner just won one.A dock worker kept alive by a failing lung implant he could never afford to replace, Phil wins the Shared Vision Implant Lottery and believes his luck has finally turned. But the MyHUD doesn't just keep him breathing. It begins to rewire him—sharpening his temper, turning cruelty into pleasure—until, one unrecognizable night, he does the unthinkable to the people he loves most.Detective Simone Foxworth has seen what broken technology can do. As she links a string of impossible murders, she uncovers a truth the most powerful corporation in the city will kill to bury: the implant everyone is racing to buy can quietly turn anyone into a weapon.A noir-soaked cyberpunk technothriller where humans are just another asset. For fan Neuromancer and Blade Runner.Comparable books
The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel, for its noir detective in a body-modified corporate future, and Upgrade by Blake Crouch, for its near-future biotech premise and crossover thriller pacing.Publication date: Dec 16

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"Phenomenal, great, intriguing, suspenseful, these are only a few of the words i can come up with how I feel about this book."

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"Recommended to those who crave difficult answers way more than sweet nothings, [...] and any cyberpunk enthusiast who's ready to have their mind scrambled."

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"A good sci-fi makes you think and this book does it a lot. Starting from the lore that under the usual cyberpunk stuff sounds scarily familiar. This novel is dark, uneasy and impossible to put down.
Well done!'"

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The Lottery is the first short story set in Bay City Noise, a standalone tale about a father, a failing body, an old implant and a lottery he can't afford to lose.All three parts of The Lottery are available for free on Substack, from Sep 12.

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The ESV Thorfinn’s mission to the exoplanet Tyche was supposed to be simple: investigate a communications blackout, fix the problem, return home.But their lander explodes on entry.Stranded on a barren alien world, Dr. Karin Amani finds the research base abandoned and her squad scattered. The pale vegetation engineered to terraform the planet has grown completely out of control—and it’s hungry for more.As she searches for survivors, Karin uncovers a disturbing truth: this mission was compromised from the start. Someone knew what she’d find down there.Now she faces an impossible choice between her own survival and stopping a contamination that could destroy humanity.A gripping sci-fi psychological horror for fans of Annihilation and The Invincible.

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"Explores what happens when a normal person is forced to accept losses and still carry on because the stakes are too high to give up."

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"Thought-provoking, intriguing... lives in the realm of 'what if.'"

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Gabriela Nuñes, head of security on a remote research base, is sent to find out why the scientists in the underground labs keep getting hurt.What she uncovers is no accident and by the time she understands it, it's too late for her. But maybe not for everyone else.Blight is a standalone prequel to the sci-fi psychological horror Remission.

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Bay City is the near-future, corp-owned megalopolis where Brainjacked and other stories and novels are set. Below is a map, and the story of the city itself. Click on any district or location for a closer look.Roam free, in Bay City almost everything is allowed.Just watch yourself. BC isn't just a city. It's alive, and it doesn't like to be challenged—and won't let you win.Click a name on the map to open its file

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Hi there, this is the part where I start writing in 3rd person as if I barely know the guy I'm talking about... me.Damova is an Italian millennial raised on everything from Taoist philosophy to Dune's endless sand, which actually explains both his existential dread and his love for dark stories. He also spent years as a tabletop RPG Game Master, a passion that taught him to build entire worlds for people who then immediately ignore the plot. It's also why he has more unfinished lore than finished books.He lived a bit in the magical island of Ireland, where he worked in localization and learned pro-level self-pity that really worsened his writer's imposter syndrome.
In 2024 he took a professional course in Literary Editing, which means he could tell you why your manuscript doesn't work while his sits unfinished.
Then, in 2026 he published his debut work REMISSION, a sci-fi psychological horror about a doctor, a deadly planet, and the very bad decisions that brought them together.Since he's great at procrastinating, but also at piling up projects and WIPs, he periodically(-ish) writes on DAMOVA'S CHAOTIC DESK, a Substack where he post speculative short stories and some insights.He's currently working on the nth unfinished project, while wondering if Ridley Scott to call for adaptation. He hasn't yet.

Damova's Chaotic Desk is what happens when story ideas, coffee rings, and half-finished thoughts all end up on the same surface. Some of it becomes fiction. Some of it gets lost in the chaos. What survives the mess ends up here.

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This is a compact version of my main newsletter, where I'll send only short stories and major updates. No essays. No musing. Just the juicy bit.

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