What if reality was a relic — and your mind the last place left to corrupt?

Splinter throws you headfirst into Onyros: a vast virtual dystopia built on the blockchain of consciousness, where memory is weaponized, and reality is collapsing from the inside out. For millions, it is paradise. For the rest, there is Bellgraph — the rotting cradle of the network, a labyrinth of towers and silence where the disconnected are left to fade.

Logan Bochniak walks between both worlds. One of the last Splinters — neural mercenaries trained to infiltrate synthetic realms, steal identities, and extract those marked for deletion — he’s also a man desperate to find his way home. But Rosenkranz-Scheer is eating his mind alive. Language slips. Thought fractures. Each dive might be his last.

Then an impossible signal breaches the network — and with it comes the enigmatic Estat, pulling Logan into a web of conspiracies that reach to the core of what reality is. The deeper he hunts the source, the clearer one truth becomes: the system isn’t just breaking. It may be dreaming.

Brimming with philosophical depth and breakneck pacing, Splinter fuses cerebral science fiction with the brutal grit of Cyberpunk 2077, the ideological weight of Black Mirror, and the existential fire of Peter Watts and William Gibson.

Part of a growing and expanding Onyros ecosphere — interconnected novels, novellas, and short fiction exploring the same fractured universe — Splinter is perfect for fans of Red Rising, Altered Carbon, The Matrix, and dystopian fiction that dares to ask not just what’s next— but what’s left.

Plug in. Disconnect. Or burn.