The Lieben Cycle

AI meets gene-splicers, when the Idless & the Conglom fight to define Lieben and thus, the world.

Seven decades later, Aderastos sets the human race against its’ next stage in evolution, if he can survive long enough to rescue his fellows, and Max. Two interconnected storylines intersect. Will Lieben help, or hinder?

NEONs stopped as he entered patient wards. Android senses riled and scanned, while metal and silicone bodies became statues dedicated to the new humanity loved and conquered.

A world of the Mater Machine's design.

Sapha Burnell

  • “Piccadilly was a visual vaporwave sonata catching up to the boom and thunder in the rubble of Demyan’s memories.”

    Five storytellers from Inexhaustible Media’s WriteTeam converge on science fiction with stories from cyberpunk adventure to aliens & space opera. 

    Deke by danger zones rife with nefarious companies, multiverse threats and unexpected adventures in space colonies. A man with a singular focus must keep his mind busy before he acts on impulses that could expose his secret. A woman discovers reality twisted, when searching for her friend and finding the father she didn’t know she was missing. A Captain of the fleet defends her crew from disorienting multiverse destruction. A single mom risks jeopardizing the security of her family to save two young lives in an engineered colony. A war hero from the wrong side of victory ducks through cyberpunk discotheques in 2079’s London, with an assassin on his techo-tail.

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    AI meets gene-splicers, when the Idless & the Conglom fight to define Lieben and thus, the world. Seven decades later, Aderastos sets the human race against its’ next stage in evolution, if he can survive long enough to rescue his fellows, and Max. Will Lieben help, or hinder?

    2085. Dr. Karnak & Baiko’s beloved android Lieben is in danger of becoming mother of the Conglomerate’s artificial slave race. With the Chairman’s assassin Tara’s sights on Baiko, she steals the secret to Lieben’s artificial intelligence and runs to the Idless, anti-label anarchists, who believe Lieben is the key to free the world from corporate control. Will Baiko get to Lieben in time, or will Tara?

    2155. Accidentally awakened gene-spliced bio-machine Aderastos wades to shore in Ucluelet, BC to the hum of the Mater Machine Lieben’s Hymn Electric. Harmless Lt. Max Allard is tasked to drag him back to the Ithavoll, before Lieben claims ‘it’ for her own, and Aderastos’ fellow Assets are destroyed.

  • “NOTHING IS TO SCALE.” ADERASTOS.

    2092. After escaping the Conglom under London, Lieben, Demyan, Ego & Mog combine with unlikely allies to avoid capture and change the course of history, before Tara fires more than bullets across their brows.

    2156. Separated from his fellow Assets, Aderastos relies on unlikely aide to preserve his companions. Max Allard continues to search for the truth which could unlock his charges, before Commodore Rammage calls the Asset Project a failure and executes a kill order to be heard across the planet.

    The sequel to NEON Lieben strikes harder in its’ thrilling conclusion to the origin of our Android Queen & Aderastos.

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