Henry Neilsen

Also features stories from @laurentaylorbak.bsky.social , Laura J Campbell, @liviajelliot.com , @thomasgloyn.bsky.social and H M weir.

Very proud of the product we've put together and can't wait for it to get out into the world!

The Savage Aether / The Disconnected Henry Neilsen's new Cyberpunk horror novel and its companion anthology, featuring a range of exciting voices of near-future horror.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hen...

My new book and companion anthology is NOW LIVE on Kickstarter. It's a cyberpunk horror novel and collection that imagines what a late-stage cyberpunk world would look like, and what happens to the people who aren't the benefactors of the system. ⤵️🔗

Super excited to be part of this technodystopic horror anthology with @henryneilsen.bsky.social! Save the pre-launch for updates about the upcoming Kickstarter.

Coming soon: The Savage Aether / The Disconnected Henry Neilsen's new Cyberpunk horror novel and its companion anthology, featuring a range of exciting voices of near-future horror.

Link below once again. Cover reveal coming soon!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hen...

Additionally, there is a companion anthology THE DISCONNECTED featuring stories from:

@laurentaylorbak.bsky.social
Laura J Campbell
@liviajelliot.com
@thomasgloyn.bsky.social
H M Weir

THE SAVAGE AETHER follows a protagonist through a chillingly plausible near-future dystopia, where a monopsonistic and monopolistic tech company runs the world, and those who don't fit feed off scraps they make for themselves.

Coming soon: The Savage Aether / The Disconnected Henry Neilsen's new Cyberpunk horror novel and its companion anthology, featuring a range of exciting voices of near-future horror.

Welcome to THE SAVAGE AETHER

LINK TO PRE-LAUNCH: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hen...

Thrilled to announce that my new novel THE SAVAGE AETHER is about to launch its campaign. You can follow the link above to sign up for the pre-launch so you’ll be notified as soon as it’s ready.

View along the length of a spaceship in orbit above Earth as it approaches a satellite.

Artwork from the special edition of Sunward Sky by @henryneilsen.bsky.social that came out last year.

Henry has a new novel on the way and the Kickstarter for it will be launching soon. I'm excited for everyone to see the artwork for the new book and to discover the new story.

ArtByJon

Submissions closed today for THE DISCONNECTED, the anthology I'm preparing alongside my next novel. I've started skimming all 27 submissions I received and I'm blown away by some of the ideas that people have brought to the table. It's going to be very hard to pick only a few of them.

Vote with your Wallet Doesn't work, but here's some alternatives to annoying programs!

I think the whole "vote with your wallet" thing doesn't work - but you can at least make decisions for yourself about predatory software. A bit of a diatribe and some alternative suggestions for software packages, if you're sick of Microsoft being garbage.

henryneilsen.substack.com/p/vote-with-...

Seriously, the power of abstract metaphor can't be overestimated. Stuff being about more than one thing when you're only showing people one thing is one of the really fun parts about art.

Does AI really use less carbon than a human? First of all, what a stupid question.

Constantly fascinated by the way AI and it's proponents consistently get things wrong, but still claim their ignorance is better than other's expertise because they used AI to get there. A write-up about a weird paper I found about carbon use by AI models.

open.substack.com/pub/henrynei...

I have a call for submissions up for my cyberpunk horror anthology! It's a shared universe with my next novel, but I'm keen to see what other people think a cyberpunk world in collapse would look like!

If you're interested, click the link below!

thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/Market?id=19...

For some reason known only to the prime movers of the universe I decided to read the EULA for Balder's Gate 3 and I'm glad I did if only for the unhinged bit about eldritch beings.

Also, apparently you should send them fan art to get perks?

Thanks mate! It was pretty cool, I don't know why but seeing my book in the contact wrap they use at the library was really, really cool

Some things that are really cool: my books are now available in my local library! I gave a talk about my experience starting a story as a podcast. Very exciting to get my first talk as an author under my belt, and I'm very keen to do more in the future.

And it sucks.

I don't really have more to say about it. It just sucks. We're really bad as a species at doing things to collectively benefit our fellow man, even when we're fully aware of the destruction our choices cause.

We seem to keep doing this to one another. Create something and then, while we argue about how to best use it (or not use it), the most base, mean, power grabbing thing becomes the status quo.

So there were a heap of memos and meetings and dissenting opinions that called for control and international agreement and they all just... Failed.

Even before Germany's surrender they knew it was a device to suppress the Russians, but after the war the combination of horrific destruction and relatively low cost of production was perceived as a potentially world ending threat. Quite rightly, too.

I'm reading American Prometheus, the biography of Oppenheimer.

First of all, it's one of the best biographies ever. The authors put in WORK.

Secondly, the timeline following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is one of the most tragic things I've read.

Thanks! And yeah, Aurealis is a great sci fi mag if you're interested in sci fi shorts

Thank you!

Brb updating all of my bios to read AUREALIS AWARD FINALIST.

Cannot believe my story LIFE IN THE DIRT has made the shortlist for this year's Aurealis awards, along with a bunch of other talented writers!

aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2...

Adolescence and the fuel of online radicalisation Jamie is a normal kid who goes to school, hangs with friends, does all the normal early teenager stuff, but after Jamie murders his classmate Katie it’s revealed that he’s got a deep dark secret: Jami...

I really enjoyed Adolescence, but I think it risks flattening discussions of misogyny to only discussing online radicalisation, and I think we ignore the broader context to our detriment. This article discusses the things that provide fuel for extreme ideologies to take root.

The titular spaceship Sunward Sky is seen in orbit above Earth with the sun just creeping above the horizon.

My art for the cover of the sci fi novel Sunward Sky, which launched a few weeks ago. Please give author @henryneilsen.bsky.social a follow for all the news on this book and his future novels.

We also made a special edition version for Kickstarter backers, with exclusive cover art.

BookCoversByJon

Thank you so much! It's been a long time coming haha

So Sunward Sky has some of that, too.

Get your copy of Sunward Sky here, and support an indie author (me!) today:

books2read.com/u/bWxz2M

www.booktopia.com.au/sunward-sky-...

This kind of ballsy confidence and assuredness in doing something incredibly dangerous for the benefit of others is something that I find inspiring, and some of the best values the human condition has to offer.