Gil Liane
Let's imagine the future.
Fiction
This Connect
Futuristic short story collection exploring emotions and connections. A clone with body hacking, befriended by someone on the genetic blacklist. AI based on your social media history. Artists who graffiti online using code and offline using holos. Sleeping Beauty tech for those weary of living. 15 immersive adventures into the heart of the human condition.
Sound
Ces enters a restricted city where sound waves are manipulated to fuel the human body. Feeding on music turns out to be dangerous and addictive. Truth is hidden in the silence, waiting for someone to listen beyond the chaos. The experiment could save the world, but who will save the people of Sound?
Map Boy
Map Boy wants to spend his twenties chilling, but fate has other ideas. Mappers can see and reshape the lines of fate, and the patterns of the universe. But talent and insanity go hand in hand. With his mentor under attack and entropy spreading, Map Boy must find the Rogue at the heart of the chaos. (Illustrated novella.)
Reader Impressions
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...The stories have a fast-paced, cinematic quality while fully immersing you in the flawed humanity of the characters. This is science fiction with a deeply human heart...
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...Set in a future world, it takes place in an experimental new society where denizens feed on music. For such an aural concept, the writing is spectacularly visual and highly evocative...
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...It is important to unlearn the assumptions from traditional literature to truly appreciate this. Very rarely do you come across something so original...
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BIO
Gil Liane loves science fiction and weird fiction. A writer and collage artist, she sometimes chooses to illustrate her own work.
Stories about possible futures, plots that explore unusual ideas, and adventures with unexpected heroes appear throughout her writing.
Unreliable narrators, dreams, symbols, and strange interpretations of tech are a few of her favorite things. She also adores popular culture and fairytale references.
Currently attempting to sell one of her TV scripts, she is fascinated by languages and storytelling across cultures.
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Connect Shun
Do you practice the art of freedom? 15 short stories exploring emotion and connection across imagined
futures. Shared realities, and virtual dreams. The human condition.
Is your utopia, my dystopia?
Technology shifts, and the
kaleidoscope turns. A new
world, refracted by thought alone. Ideology. Power. Love. Prejudice.
Illusion. Passion.
The AI Pied Piper spins a new religion; to teens raised on code, each music video becomes a psalm.
A city where every word is carefully defined threatens to fall to a new, indescribable emotion.
Earth-bound Children of Mars straddle the blurred line between
potential cult and reflected reality.
While people feed on sounds, a woman without hearing meets a musician tired of performing.
Early 2025 release.
A Dream of Death & Data
Police detective Max Miller has his childhood first love Jason back, released from prison after serving time for a murder he didn't commit. The virtual world is behind them.
But their happiness is short-lived when Jason is found murdered. Max is assigned the case with Agent Silver, an AI in a woman's body, new to exploring human emotion.
Using dream extension technology, Max must solve not just the mystery in the present, but the unsolved homicide in the past. Jason's family offer more questions than answers.
Why is the Health Crimes Division so interested? When the clues keep
leading back to an underworld healthcare nanotech ring, Max wonders what Jason was hiding.
As the dream tech takes its toll on Max's grief-ridden mind, reality, fantasy, and memory blur. Max fights to solve the case with Silver's help, determined to learn the truth.
2025 release.
The Conceptualist
Gray is one of eight genetic anomalies known as Conceptualists, able to absorb and process information beyond human imagining. Having reshaped society, Conceptualist nations are the new first world powers.
With her hold on sanity slipping, Gray's fractured mind survives via a process of data submersion known as Sourcing. Isolated in a tower of tech, she filters the world into pictures she can paint, reality seeping beyond the frame.
Bird is the President’s golden-eyed son, a sensory splicing addict with a taste for twin lovers. Protected by the clone bodyguard Dream, Bird is reckless, charismatic, and determined to remove his corrupt mother from the Presidency.
With the elusive Conceptualist Friend gone rogue, working with the greatest of AIs, The One Who Watches, global power is shifting. Gray and Bird are determined to find a place in the new world order. But can they escape the pattern?
Late 2024 release.
Otherplace
If you don't belong, you fade.
In Otherplace, no job and no home mean no right to exist. The law of One is clear. All Placeless must Fade. When Place Police sweep the dome, illegals have three choices: hide, run, or fade from existence.
Hellen and her brother Hop take refuge deep in the forest. But at Desperachen Manor the only thing worse than being Placeless, is being prey. Hellen finds hope as a Module at the castle, until even magic can't hide the truth...
The more she sees of the world the more questions haunt her. Why does Prince Charming have so many faces? How did Death become trapped in a person?
The Placeless rebellion has secret allies, and powerful enemies. A seer insists Hellen will save them all, but she doesn't believe in visions. It's hard enough staying alive.
Young Adult, available here.
Saving Beauty
What if falling asleep made Sleeping Beauty powerful?
Princess Ava has the rare ability to manipulate the dreamscape. But being a Dreamer equals a death sentence. In the eyes of the royal court, those who influence sleepers are the ultimate threat.
With family and friends trying to control and protect her, the future is unclear. Only the mysterious stranger in the dreamscape fights for her freedom. But why does he say he shouldn’t be trusted?
Trapped between a High Queen addicted to nightmares and the ruthless rebel leader Robin, time is running out for Ava. Can a pawn win the game? To avoid becoming a weapon, she must become a leader.
Whoever controls the dreamscape, controls the world.
Late 2024 release, Young Adult Fantasy novel. Book One in the Dreamer Queen Series.
Optimate
Rebellion has a time limit, a price tag, and a purpose.
The Tunnels are an underground labyrinth of ever-changing clubs. Everyone is high on neural entertainment, chips and input bands providing the ultimate illusions. During the day Angel hacks elite fashion houses, coding her way to cutting edge looks before they hit the streets.
Angel is truly Optimate, and life is a wild ride. But when her path crosses with the sexy Downliner Tears, she starts asking questions. Why are Clubbers dropping like flies in the Lowerlands? What is the magnetic Diar up to? And who is the surreal Rowan guy?
As the shadow of online activist Forrest moves closer to home, life becomes more nightmare than dream. She suspects none of her friends are as ordinary as they seem. Some may not be human.
New Adult, available here.
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