Neon Lieben

By Sapha Burnell

2085. Dr. Karnak & Baiko’s beloved android Lieben is in danger of becoming the Conglomerate’s first artificial slave. With the 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 including shapeshifting trees, and a dragon, are destroyed.

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?

‘Come at your leisure. My love is free. My abundance is yours.’

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vræyda Literary
• Release date: Sep 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781988034157

Sapha Burnell

"Sapha is like a young Wolfgang Pauli, in every laboratory he went, there was a little explosion." - David RoomyI was born in Vancouver, BC in the 80’s. Teethed on images of the Berlin Wall falling down. The product of Vancouver's multiculturalism, I steeped in divergent cultures, religious experiences and gender roles, until battling with traditional opinions became a daily war. On hiatus from the written word, I volunteered in Ghana, West Africa for a medical charity, and returned to Canada with an international perspective on gender, and storytelling.In 2014, my poetry collection Usurper Kings (Vræyda Literary) hit the shelves with a Bang. My novella Son of Abel debuted in MacroMicroCosm Literary & Art Journal, and was published unabridged in 2017. The Writers Union of Canada elected me as BC/Yukon Regional Representative for the National Council at the 2017 AGM. My term concluded May 2019. I live in BC with my spouse, and speak on gender roles, cyberpunk, martial arts, comparative mythology & religion, when the #hallowesfam isn’t chatting it up on twitch while we stream more RPG’s.