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Null Witness is a serialized cyberpunk thriller set in 2035 Los Angeles: technically authentic hacking fiction with a literary character arc.

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Null Witness is a serialized cyberpunk thriller set in 2035 Los Angeles. Cade Voss scrapes by on bug bounties and gray-market security work, until an invite to Dark Cypher, an underground hacker contest with a life-changing purse, gives him one shot at getting out from under. Narrated from a federal interrogation room. New chapters weekly.

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Null Witness is a serialized cyberpunk thriller set in a 2035 Los Angeles that reads like prophecy rather than invention. After the AI bubble broke, the data of a generation was lost, the dollar fell, and the country fractured, the Pacific Compact rebuilt order on the back of total surveillance, the Glass, that most people agreed to, because they remembered what disorder cost.

Into that world comes Cade Voss: twenty-four, broke, and very good at one thing. An invite to an underground hacking contest looks like his way out, and turns out to be a door he was never meant to walk through. The hacking is real and drives the plot; the character arc and the surveillance thesis put it equally in literary-fiction territory. Free to read, new chapters weekly.

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TitleNull Witness
AuthorMichael Stringer
GenreCyberpunk / techno-thriller
FormatSerialized novel (web + Substack)
CadenceNew chapters weekly
Setting2035 Los Angeles · Pacific Compact
PriceFree to read (Act Zero)
Readnullwitness.io
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Background#0a0a0c
Surface#111116
Text#e4e2db
Amber (accent)#c9a55a
Glass blue#5a8fa6
Alarm red#8a3a3a

Dark ground, sparse amber, cold blue for the surveillance layer, red for alarm only.

Typography

Type.

Null Witness

Playfair Display — display & headlines

The Glass logs what you do. Not why.

Source Serif 4 — body & prose

ACTIVITY_CLASS: TRANSIT [ROUTINE]

JetBrains Mono — the machine voice

Art

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Graphic-novel style, illustrated by the author. Right-click to save, or use the download links. Please credit Null Witness.

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  • "Technically authentic hacking fiction with a literary character arc."
  • "A near future that reads like prophecy rather than invention."
  • "The surveillance state nobody imposed: the one we agreed to."
  • "The hacking is real. The author checks."
Contact

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For press inquiries, review copies, and interviews, reach out via Substack. A dedicated press address is coming soon.

Newsletter: https://nullwitness.substack.com

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