Mindstock

Fans of Neuromancer, Black Mirror and Philip K. Dick, meet your next reality. Psychologically complex, strikingly prophetic, and sweeping in its implications, Mindstock is a gripping sci-fi technothriller for our times.

Whom can you trust when all the world is a lie?

Decades after a cataclysmic cyberattack wiped out humanity's digital memory, civilization survives only because a shadowy elite known as the Consortia rose from the ruins to reconstruct the world's lost knowledge. They gave society a seductive new form of AI, promising order, safety, and ease. But at what cost?

For Robyn Sheridan, once a rising scientist whose career and reputation were destroyed in the chaos, the world never made sense again. Now a relentless truth investigator, she still feels the sting of the secrets that shattered her life.

For Darius Tourner, an art hacktivist whose creations challenge the official narrative, every act of rebellion is personal-his way of fighting back against a world that erased someone he loved.

Neither knows the other exists.

Nor that an emergent AGI is beginning to ask unanswered questions.

None of them realizes they're each uncovering fragments of a dreadful reality.

Mindstock is a character-driven techno-thriller about identity, power, and the cost of knowing the truth. Once you start reading, you won't escape until the final revelation.

Author: Richard Yonck
Publisher: Palabras Publishing LLC
Published: 09/16/2025
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9798999121240

About the Author
Yonck, Richard: - Richard Yonck began reading science fiction from his earliest school days. Always curious about the future and worlds beyond our own planet, he was fascinated by computers and electronics as well. As a boy, he could often be found in the garage taking apart motors, radios and televisions, then reassembling them in order to understand how they worked. Combined with his love of writing, media, and computing, this eventually put him on the path to become an international keynote speaker, global futurist and acclaimed author. In these roles, he takes audiences on journeys into the future to explore the potential impacts of emerging trends and technologies on business, industry and society. Richard's book, Future Minds explores the nature and future of human and artificial intelligence. His previous book, Heart of the Machine, looks at the future of those technologies that allow computers and robots to read, interpret, and influence human emotions. Now in its second edition, it's been translated into multiple languages. Now, his passion for science and science fiction has brought him full circle. Mindstock is Richard's debut science fiction thriller, though it will be far from his last. He loves writing fiction that explores not only what may happen, but what must never happen. Join him on this sci-fi thriller journey through his books, author talks, newsletters and social media channels. Raised in Seattle, Richard is married to his wife, Alexandra Steele, and together they make their home in Buenos Aires, Prague, and Seattle.