Thinspace

Artificial Intelligence Hungers for Dreams
In a near future where an omniscient Al harnesses human brainpower in dreams, teenage Isaac begins to suspect his memories are being deleted. When he searches for the lost pieces of himself-risking mindwipe—he discovers that the world is a far stranger place than he had been raised to believe.

But if he pushes against total control, he risks falling from his class and becoming a vac—his body remote-controlled for factory labor while his mind consumes hyperreal dreams.

Thinspace is an inquiry into the neuroscience that makes us who we are, and the power of technology to control us. Sink deeper into the text with a ground-breaking soundtrack produced by classical/electronic fusion artist Spearfisher.

Praise for Thinspace
"To be successful, you've got to be the first, the best, or the weirdest. Thinspace is some combination of those things: post-cyberpunk, transhuman semi-horror spec-fic with a soundtrack courtesy of music hyperlinks printed within and without the text. It feels like Nine-Inch Nails, Brazil, and William Gibson had a mutant baby!"
—R. W.W. Greene, author of Mercury Rising

"Jeremiah John's Thinspace is an imaginative and prescient tour de force that takes aim at the Silicon Valley magnates plotting our shiny, happy enslavement. This is Fahrenheit 451 for the Al age."
—Adam Mann, Space and Physics Reporter

“Thinspace is an intricate, thoughtful exploration of omnipresent technology, a vivid and well-researched tour of the dehumanizing path humanity might follow into an all- too-plausible future.”
—John P Murphy, Nebula-nominated author of The Liar and Red Noise

“Thinspace brings an impressive combination of hard neuroscience and deep emotion to a high school experience of licensed bullies, sinister guidance counselors, parents who hide the truth of your past, and mandatory dreams. John’s literary skill ensures that you’ll follow Isaac through every twist in the hardest year of his young life.”
—Alexander Jablokov, author of Brain Thief, Carve the Sky, Deepdrive, A Deeper Sea, Nimbus, and River of Dust

“Thinspace takes a George Orwell approach to the hardboiled noir of cyberpunk—the internet as an unavoidable hangout
and pervasive system of control. A Ray Bradbury story in a William Gibson world, full of intriguing detours.”
—Romie Stott, author of Nothing in the Basement and Strange Horizons poetry editor

“Jeremiah John delivers a timely update to the classic dystopian cautionary tales of the 20th century. In an all-too-near future, an ever-hungry AI controls, and feeds off, the dreams of human beings, while a few tired souls try to resist the Mind as it streams a redefined reality directly into their consciousness. Thinspace holds a mirror up to early 21st century consumer capitalism, and its project of promoting global homogeneity. This thoroughly absorbing novel pits culture, story and myth against speed, efficiency and conformity, challenging readers not to yield to today’s
temptation to believe that ‘resistance [to the algorithm] is futile.’”
—Chris Wight and Ched Myers (author of Binding the Strong Man), Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries (https://bcmonline.org)

“In Thinspace, Jeremiah John has constructed an intricate, deeply-imagined, and terrifying near-future dystopia. Here, the omniscient Mind colonizes your dreams and monitors you for inappropiate emotional surges. Humans become remotely-controlled ‘vacs,’ working endlessly in factories. But watch out if your operator screws up and you get sucked into a machine! Do you stand up to the Mind or continue in slavery?”
—Frank Wu, co-author of the ESPionage Psychic CIA books