Publication date: 3rd December 2026
Ghost Syntax is a speculative SciFi short-story collection that explores what happens when systems designed to preserve, optimise or replicate humanity begin to forget what being human means – or start to remember it imperfectly. Across interlinked yet formally distinct stories, Eugenia Byney imagines worlds governed by artificial intelligences, closed loops, simulations and adaptive networks, where absence, erasure and recursion become lived experiences. These narratives are driven less by spectacle than by quiet unease: missing people, altered memories, linguistic gaps and moments when control slips just enough for something unintended to emerge. Precise, atmospheric and philosophically charged, Ghost Syntax examines memory, agency and identity at the threshold where language, technology, and consciousness begin to fail – and transform.
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 November.
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
Ghost Syntax is a speculative SciFi short-story collection that explores what happens when systems designed to preserve, optimise or replicate humanity begin to forget what being human means – or start to remember it imperfectly. Across interlinked yet formally distinct stories, Eugenia Byney imagines worlds governed by artificial intelligences, closed loops, simulations and adaptive networks, where absence, erasure and recursion become lived experiences. These narratives are driven less by spectacle than by quiet unease: missing people, altered memories, linguistic gaps and moments when control slips just enough for something unintended to emerge. Precise, atmospheric and philosophically charged, Ghost Syntax examines memory, agency and identity at the threshold where language, technology, and consciousness begin to fail – and transform.
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 November.
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.
