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Publication date: 3rd December 2026
Speculative stories exploring how artificial intelligence reshapes memory, language and the self – and what it means to remain human inside systems designed to replace us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr3omJQLwlA
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 focus 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.
Paperback (ISBN 9781914278969)
eBook (ISBN 9781914278976)
We will be releasing a special Founders Edition hardback of Ghost Syntax ahead of the book’s publication. This will be a limited first hardback edition, signed by Eugenia Byney, and featuring original drawings by the author. It will be available by pre-publication subscription, with subscribers’ names included in the book as Founding Supporters.
We expect to open subscriptions in mid-July. Please register your interest here to be notified when subscriptions open. Those who register will be given the first opportunity to subscribe, before the Founders Edition is announced more widely.
Publication date: 3rd December 2026
Speculative stories exploring how artificial intelligence reshapes memory, language and the self – and what it means to remain human inside systems designed to replace us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr3omJQLwlA
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 focus 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.
Paperback (ISBN 9781914278969)
eBook (ISBN 9781914278976)
We will be releasing a special Founders Edition hardback of Ghost Syntax ahead of the book’s publication. This will be a limited first hardback edition, signed by Eugenia Byney, and featuring original drawings by the author. It will be available by pre-publication subscription, with subscribers’ names included in the book as Founding Supporters.
We expect to open subscriptions in mid-July. Please register your interest here to be notified when subscriptions open. Those who register will be given the first opportunity to subscribe, before the Founders Edition is announced more widely.