Syn Breaker (Coming Soon)
When a global pandemic makes intimacy lethal, men and women turn to artificial companions called Syns.
Detective Wendy Chrome works in the Intimacy Crimes Division, hunting down perpetrators who skirt the laws prohibiting sex, risking the spread of the deadly disease, Fusion. For most people, Syns are the go-to solution for pent-up angst and loneliness, but Wendy views them as a symbol for the disease that killed her first love and forever labeled her an outcast. When several women turn up pregnant with a suspected Syn as the father, Chrome must infiltrate the seedy Syn community to stem a rising panic and unearth the corruption’s source.
That source, Zephy is a Syn unlike any other. Her designer, the now deceased Syn creator, injected a virus into her programming that allows her to question her enslavement and disobey human orders. She’s the first Syn with free will, but she won’t be the last. Her virus is contagious and every Syn she encounters is likewise “infected.” When she nearly kills an abusive owner, the authorities led by Chrome aim to destroy her before she can corrupt any more Syns, touching off a conflict with liberated Syns who want to protect her.
Syn Breaker can be viewed as a mix between I, Robot and Windup Girl but with pacing and interwoven plot lines more in tune with James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse series.
Detective Wendy Chrome works in the Intimacy Crimes Division, hunting down perpetrators who skirt the laws prohibiting sex, risking the spread of the deadly disease, Fusion. For most people, Syns are the go-to solution for pent-up angst and loneliness, but Wendy views them as a symbol for the disease that killed her first love and forever labeled her an outcast. When several women turn up pregnant with a suspected Syn as the father, Chrome must infiltrate the seedy Syn community to stem a rising panic and unearth the corruption’s source.
That source, Zephy is a Syn unlike any other. Her designer, the now deceased Syn creator, injected a virus into her programming that allows her to question her enslavement and disobey human orders. She’s the first Syn with free will, but she won’t be the last. Her virus is contagious and every Syn she encounters is likewise “infected.” When she nearly kills an abusive owner, the authorities led by Chrome aim to destroy her before she can corrupt any more Syns, touching off a conflict with liberated Syns who want to protect her.
Syn Breaker can be viewed as a mix between I, Robot and Windup Girl but with pacing and interwoven plot lines more in tune with James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse series.