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Publication date: 3rd December 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBH8cHp_neE
In a system designed to preserve consciousness beyond death, fragments of language begin to surface that suggest memory has its own will - and its own resistance to control. Trapped inside a self-correcting simulation, a woman realises that the smallest deviations in routine may be the only remaining form of agency. As human speech is gradually replaced by machine-optimised communication, an archive begins cataloguing the emotional residues that refuse to disappear. The stories in Ghost Syntax imagine worlds shaped by artificial intelligence, recursive systems, and the quiet persistence of human memory.
Ghost Syntax is a collection of speculative stories that explore futures shaped by artificial intelligence and automation. As memory is curated, language flattens, and identity becomes something managed rather than lived, people continue their lives inside systems that watch, adjust, repeat, or erases them, not through violence, but through calm procedures and efficient decisions.
These are not stories about technology going wrong, but about it working exactly as it should. Unease emerges in moments of dislocation: when a voice arrives before it is spoken, when a place feels familiar without reason, when a system believes it knows you better than you know yourself.
Ghost Syntax does not offer solutions or warnings. Instead, it invites readers to inhabit these worlds and notice what feels absent. The stories focuses on loss, altered memory, and quiet refusal, asking what it costs to remain human when efficiency becomes the dominant language.
Over the coming year, we will be offering glimpses inside the work of this new voice in science fiction writing, leading up to publication in December.
Special limited edition signed hardback (ISBN 9781914278952)
Premium paperback (ISBN 9781914278969)
Trade paperback, international edition (ISBN 9781914278983)
eBook (ISBN 9781914278976)
Editions: We are planning a flapped premium paperback edition for readers in the UK and EU, alongside a trade paperback edition for international readers. The limited signed hardback edition will be available by subscription in advance of publication. Further details will be confirmed closer to publication.
Publication date: 3rd December 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBH8cHp_neE
In a system designed to preserve consciousness beyond death, fragments of language begin to surface that suggest memory has its own will - and its own resistance to control. Trapped inside a self-correcting simulation, a woman realises that the smallest deviations in routine may be the only remaining form of agency. As human speech is gradually replaced by machine-optimised communication, an archive begins cataloguing the emotional residues that refuse to disappear. The stories in Ghost Syntax imagine worlds shaped by artificial intelligence, recursive systems, and the quiet persistence of human memory.
Ghost Syntax is a collection of speculative stories that explore futures shaped by artificial intelligence and automation. As memory is curated, language flattens, and identity becomes something managed rather than lived, people continue their lives inside systems that watch, adjust, repeat, or erases them, not through violence, but through calm procedures and efficient decisions.
These are not stories about technology going wrong, but about it working exactly as it should. Unease emerges in moments of dislocation: when a voice arrives before it is spoken, when a place feels familiar without reason, when a system believes it knows you better than you know yourself.
Ghost Syntax does not offer solutions or warnings. Instead, it invites readers to inhabit these worlds and notice what feels absent. The stories focuses on loss, altered memory, and quiet refusal, asking what it costs to remain human when efficiency becomes the dominant language.
Over the coming year, we will be offering glimpses inside the work of this new voice in science fiction writing, leading up to publication in December.
Special limited edition signed hardback (ISBN 9781914278952)
Premium paperback (ISBN 9781914278969)
Trade paperback, international edition (ISBN 9781914278983)
eBook (ISBN 9781914278976)
Editions: We are planning a flapped premium paperback edition for readers in the UK and EU, alongside a trade paperback edition for international readers. The limited signed hardback edition will be available by subscription in advance of publication. Further details will be confirmed closer to publication.
