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Seth W James
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Cyberpunk novelist, author of The Cain Series (and a dozen other books, in several genres). https://www.sethwjames.com/

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Launch day! Launch day!

"The Fall," book 4 in "The Cain Series," is now live.

Episodic, near-future, cyberpunk science fiction.

Hand-crafted by a human for human readers.

Link: a.co/d/9GSxW4q

Press release: www.sethwjames.com/new-novel-re...

#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky 💙📚
Book cover for "The Fall," book 4 in "The Cain Series," by Seth W. James. Cain and Francesca, dressed in black trench coats and carrying pistols, walk toward the viewer with an unfinished seawall in the background.
November 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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A week and a day until launch of "The Fall," book 4 in "The Cain Series," or, in other words, the longest week ever. Somehow still unable to distract me from all of the awful shit going down under fascist occupation, but, man, this'll be a long week.

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Cover of "The Fall," book 4 in "The Cain Series," by Seth W. James. Cain and Francesca, dressed in black overcoats and carrying pistols, walking toward the viewer, with an unfinished seawall in the background.
October 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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There's just about 2 weeks left until "The Fall," book 4 in "The Cain Series," goes live.

Episodic, near-future, cyberpunk science fiction.

Handcrafted cyberpunk: written by a human for human readers.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3HQCK...

#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky 💙📚
Book cover for the novel "The Fall," book 4 in "The Cain Series," by Seth W. James. Cain and Francesca walking toward the viewer, all badass, in black trench coats and carrying pistols. Behind them, a huge seawall is under construction.
October 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Cover reveal! "The Fall," book 4 in "The Cain Series," is coming November 2025. Episodic, near-future, cyberpunk science fiction, written by a human for human readers.

Don't trust the AIs, man, they'll kill you dirty.

#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky 💙📚

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Cover art for "The Fall", book 4 in "The Cain Series," by Seth W. James. Cain and Francesca walking toward the viewer, dressed similarly in black overcoats and carrying suppressed pistols. In the background, a huge seawall under construction.
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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The cover for "An Uncalculated Risk" appears in the new issue of Cover Crush, a feature from Booklife by Publisher's Weekly.

As always, a big thank you to @damonza.bsky.social for their excellent work creating the cover.

#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor

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The cover for "An Uncalculated Risk", an episodic, near-future, cyberpunk science fiction novel, by Seth W. James, book 3 in The Cain Series.
August 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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I think, as science-fiction authors, we can help to explain the misconceptions and misappropriations so often seen in regard to what is disingenuously named, "AI."

Here's my take.

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Artificial Intelligence remains what it has always been, a matter of science fiction. What is marketed as “AI” or “LLM” does not possess intelligence nor the ability to reason. The big lie concerning AI is that it understands language and outputs a linguistic response: it does not. AI cannot comprehend language, but rather renders language into a mathematical representation. AI then applies its algorithms to the mathematical representation of language that it created, compares the transformed language input to its database of copyrighted material, and then outputs something mathematically corresponding to the “answer” within the copyrighted material. AI does not understand what it is saying, which is why it so often says such bizarre things: to the AI, it’s all just math. Why this amounts to copyright infringement is that the mathematical representations of language found within its databases are, in essence, translations of copyrighted material. When the AI extracts and recombines fragments of copyrighted material, to create its output, it is, in fact, creating a species of anthology, reproducing the amalgamated work of human authors—without our consent. There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence.
July 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Cyberpunk plots from The Cain Series found in the real world:

Corporate-owned politicians' performative outrage serves only one purpose: profit.

Fact or fiction? (Both: from prison-corps to AI-corps, legal bribes of campaign cash control reality.)

#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky 📚💙
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Cover for An Uncalculated Risk, a cyberpunk novel in The Cain Series by Seth W. James.
July 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Cyberpunk plots from The Cain Series found in the real world:

A billionaire manufactures scarcity to manipulate the market—and start a war.

Fact or fiction? (Both; rare-earths are not rare, but billionaires need scarcity to exploit, profit from war.)

#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky
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Book cover for An Uncalculated Risk by Seth W. James.
July 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Cyberpunk plots from The Cain Series found in the real world:

Corporations kidnapping people for leverage and profit.

Fact or fiction? (It's both; every corp that gave money to our fascist regime also owns the disappearances and concentration camps.)

#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky
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Cover for An Uncalculated Risk by Seth W. James
July 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Cyberpunk plots from The Cain Series found in the real world:

Platoons of corrupt cops, with military-grade equipment, hired like mercenaries to further the billionaires' agenda.

Fact or fiction? (It's both; again, USA, look out the fucking window.)

#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky
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Book cover for A Desperate Measure
July 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Cyberpunk plots from The Cain Series found in the real world:

Corporations hiring mercenaries to intimidate, stifle, or kill anyone who impedes their profits.

Fact or fiction? (It's both; look up Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola for a horrifying example.)

#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky

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Book cover for A Desperate Measure.
June 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Cyberpunk plots from The Cain Series found in the real world:

Multinational corporations attacking government projects, illegally ransacking them for profit.

Fact or fiction? (It's both; everything is up for sale or demolition in fascist America.)

#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky

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Cover for A Desperate Measure
June 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Cyberpunk plots from The Cain Series found in the real world:

Corp-built city-states attacked by mercs to manipulate the market.

Fact or fiction? (It's both; tech-bro fiefdoms are already on their way—as is the surprise, when a rival hires a PMC.)

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#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky
Cover for Ethos of Cain.
June 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Cyberpunk plots from The Cain Series found in the real world:

Russia's 25+ year war on the west has ushered in the cyberpunkilization of the world.

Fact or fiction? (It's both; bots causing civil wars, drone warfare, total corp control—it happened.)

#cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky

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Covers from The Cain Series of episodic, near-future, cyberpunk, science-fiction novels.
June 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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I'm glad the county sends out these voting confirmation flyers. Peace of mind without having to call the BoE.

Also, Ras! Ras! Ras!

#newjersey
June 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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From a jailbreak at a for-profit prison, to gun battles on the streets of Brussels, to raiding a PMC's headquarters in orbit, "The Cain Series" offers gritty action in a dark future.

Handcrafted cyberpunk, by a human for humans.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3HQCK...

#cyberpunkbooks #scifibooks #booksky
Covers for "The Cain Series" cyberpunk novels.
May 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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A wealthy industrialist exploits war and corruption to expand his business interests, selfishly inflicting misery upon the world.

No, not that putty-faced asshole. The secret antagonist in "An Uncalculated Risk," book 3 in "The Cain Series."

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Cyberpunk by a human for human readers.
Book cover for "An Uncalculated Risk"
May 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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With the launch of "An Uncalculated Risk," book 3 of "The Cain Series," I wanted to give a special shoutout to @damonza.bsky.social for creating yet another amazing cover me. Thanks, team!

Book link: a.co/d/0yL3vpi

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Book cover for "An Uncalculated Risk," book 3 of "The Cain Series" by Seth W. James. Cain standing there looking all badass, a couple pistols in hand.
May 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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"An Uncalculated Risk," book 3 in "The Cain Series:"

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A mercenary invasion, a trillionaire’s extortion scheme, and the one soldier-of-fortune who could bring it all crashing down: Cain.

#cyberpunk #cyberpunkbooks #scifibooks #booksky #sciencefiction
The book cover for "An Uncalculated Risk" book 3 of "The Cain Series" in hardcover and electronic formats.
May 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Cover reveal! Here's the cover art for "An Uncalculated Risk," book 3 in "The Cain Series" by Seth W. James, due out this May, 2025.

Link to announcement: www.sethwjames.com/cover-reveal...

#cyberpunk #cyberpunkbooks #scifibooks #booksky #sciencefiction #bookcover #bookcoverreveal
The cover for An Uncalculated Risk, book 3 of The Cain Series, by Seth W. James. It's Cain looking all badass, suited up to put some hurt on the antagonists.
April 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Or this one, too, really . . .

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A Garand rifle from the video game Fallout New Vegas, upon which is written the phrase, "Well, this machine kills commies."
January 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Not to be confused with this machine of similar design and purpose . . .
Woody Guthrie posing with his guitar, which has printed upon it the phrase, "This machine kills fascists."
January 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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In an age where AI and chatbots threaten to overwhelm us with digital kipple, I think it’s important for we human writers to assure readers that . . .

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Cyberpunk author Seth W. James wearing a shirt that reads, "This machine writes novels."
January 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Current events got you down? Need a story of a trillionaire's extortion, a raid on a for-profit prison, and billionaire fascists getting shot to pieces?

Then check out “Ethos of Cain,” book 1 of The Cain Series.

Link: a.co/d/5p9GXp6

#cyberpunk #cyberpunkbooks #scifibooks #booksky #sciencefiction
Cover art for Ethos of Cain, book 1 of The Cain Series, by Seth W. James. Cain looking all badass, with a flooded city behind him and an orbital in the sky/space.
January 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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And here's a look at the cover art.
The cover art for A Desperate Measure, book 2 of The Cain Series, by Seth W. James. Description: Cain and Francesca looking all badass, with CasiDrone vehicles and an orbital in the background.
January 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM