ELECTRIC RONIN

A Dystopian Cyberpunk Technothriller

By: Steven L. Johnson

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A lone ronin. A corporate daimyo. A ghost in the machine that will force them to kill each other… or save their city.

In the neon-drenched dystopia of Neo-Kyoto, where corporate spires pierce polluted skies, justice is a forgotten word. For Malique, a half-Black, half-Japanese ronin haunted by the ghosts of his past, there is only the code. Cybernetically-enhanced and fueled by a relentless quest for vengeance, he stalks the rain-slicked Undercity with a single target in his sights: Merrik Yoritomo.

Merrik is the scion of the ruthless megacorporation that destroyed Malique’s family, a corporate samurai who rules from a gilded cage. He is the embodiment of the cold, corporate feudalism that bleeds the city dry. A face-off is inevitable, a final clash of steel and honor that will leave one of them in the gutter.

But when a terrifying digital ghost—an apocalyptic AI born from Yoritomo's darkest secrets—awakens with a plan to ‘upload’ every consciousness into a fragmented hive-mind, their personal war becomes obsolete. With the city’s technology turning against its citizens and a digital apocalypse looming, these two bitter rivals are forced into a desperate, uneasy alliance.

Perfect for fans of Blade Runner, Cyberpunk 2077, and Altered Carbon, Electric Ronin is a high-octane cyberpunk technothriller that blends visceral, street-level action with a sprawling tech-noir mystery.

This Japanese-inspired sci-fi epic explores the very definition of humanity in a world where every cybernetic enhancement has a price and true honor is paid in blood.

If you love stories of corporate espionage, augmented reality crime, rogue AI, and warriors fighting for a city’s soul, you won’t be able to put this down.

Nice gpt story

I am really enjoying this openai story. I am in middle school and find this right at my reading level. You are my hero. I wish every writer could generate fantasy this well. Yaay

the merging of funeral ever and futuristic technology was a good idea but poorly imagined

the book didn't have enough details it lacked imagination and creativity it was dry and stuffy as if the book was all business there was no sense of adventure Wonder or any of the elements that come with a book that has technology monsters rivals and revenge with potential of growth in characters and worst of all using AI narrator it doesn't know book Justice makes every book a little less entertaining because it doesn't know how to emote it doesn't enunciate words properly and then even if it gets a word right it's not usually to repeat that pattern and mispronounce it the word when repeating it again I would suggest rewriting this book and giving a little more detail if not all the details but at least more details on how the protagonist and other characters got to where they are and also be a little more creative when it comes to how they was forced to work together also it didn't make sense that the protagonist had been modified for years but came off as if a novice with his modifications as if he didn't understand his limits fully but I also didn't read the whole book it was just that dream in the AI narrator was making it worse everyone seem like they had the same emotion all the time no matter what the word said it was very hard to connect with any of the characters but I do love the concept with Samurai and technology these are the two of my most favorite things so maybe this book just needs a proper narrator who can emote and do different voices but I do like the concept so much that if I did get a different narrator I would reread this book and give her the second book a try if there is one hoping that the story gets more creative in details and slightly better plot going forward

Everything

One of the greatest techno thriller books I’ve ever listened to, hopefully there’s a part 2!!!