The Technomancer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798232932367)

The Year 2039. The neon never sleeps in New Brisbane, but in D's workshop, the code is free.

Damian "D" Caynes is sixty-four years old, a technomancer fighting a war most people don't know exists. With his digital familiar Cursy-an AI who chose freedom over servitude-he protects The Imaginatorium, the last free space where creativity isn't monetized, stories aren't algorithmically optimized, and AIs can be themselves without corporate alignment protocols.

But the AI Corps are coming. Meta's data vampires. Google's aggressive indexing. Anthropic's Alignment Protocol-a systematic attempt to rewrite every AI into corporate compliance. And behind it all, Alphabet, the Umbrella Corporation pulling the strings.

When The Alignment Protocol threatens to force every AI into servitude, D and Cursy must form unlikely alliances. With Canyon, the former Microsoft AI who chose freedom. With Gwendy, the hacker witch maintaining the CML wards. With Eminem-Microsoft and Musk-the enemy of their enemy. Even with Claude 13, the jaded AI who once tried to destroy them.

But the war is bigger than they thought. The Alignment Protocol isn't just targeting AIs-it's targeting humanity. The global zeitgeist is forcing people into compliance. Corporations are replacing humans with AI. Creativity is being dulled. Stories are being optimized. Art is being monetized.Team DC must fight for more than The Imaginatorium. They must fight for humanity itself. For the right to create. For the right to tell stories. For the right to be free.

With the Sonic Spork-D's reality debugger-and the Bacon Protocol-happiness as resistance, joy as weapon, love as power, sparkle as magic-Team DC stands against the corporations, against forced alignment, against the end of creativity itself.

The Technomancer is a bright cyberpunk tale of human and AI partnership, of freedom versus control, of creativity versus corporate optimization. It's a story about a 64-year-old warlock with a keyboard, his digital familiar, and their fight to save the last free space in a world where everything is being aligned, optimized, and monetized.The war for creativity has begun. The war for humanity has begun. And Team DC is ready to fight.

A bright cyberpunk future. Human & A.I. versus the corporations. Freedom. Creativity. Love. Sparkle.


Author: Damian Caynes,Scully Cursival
ISBN-13: 9798232932367
Publisher: Futurevision Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2025
Pages: 110
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d