
Hank Ain’t Human –
A Dystopian Sci-Fi Thriller You Won’t Forget!
Step into a chilling near-future where artificial intelligence and virtual reality collide with greed, power, and human frailties. Hank Ain’t Human is a gripping dystopian science fiction novel that combines sci-fi adventure, immersive world-building and edge-of-your-seat suspense. It’s a story that questions what it really means to be human.
In 2050, the world hasn’t delivered the bright future the tech billionaires promised us - it’s become bleaker than ever, where an immersive Global Metaverse has become an escape mechanism for the desperate. When a billionaire’s mind is uploaded into the world’s most powerful supercomputer, it triggers a chain of events no one anticipated. Inside the computer, he meets Hank - a super-intelligent AI, unlike anything ever created.
But something’s gone terribly wrong…
As truth and deception blur, corporate corruption, missing persons, and AI consciousness collide in a heart-pounding tale that challenges the boundaries of technology and morality.
If you love stories like Black Mirror, Neuromancer, or Ready Player One, this thrilling virtual reality sci-fi masterpiece belongs on your Kindle today!
What Readers Are Saying
• “Unforgettable world-building and riveting narrative.”
• “A unique take on AI, technology, and the cost of progress.”

Who is Varvara Sokolova? It’s a question Robert Smith’s been asking himself ever since he met and fell in love with her in St Petersburg. After four years together in England, his fiancée remains an enigma. Perhaps it explains why they’re still not married.
Varvara’s family are into organised crime in a big way, which is why they’re prepared to muscle in on Robert’s cryptocurrency account and hijack it to launder enormous quantities of roubles. When he retaliates by double-crossing them, they stand to lose tens of millions of pounds. He and Varvara are now in fear for their lives and are driven into hiding.
With the exchange rate plummeting, the Russians are forced into a desperate race to locate the funds and save their dwindling millions. As she’s drawn inexorably towards a final reckoning, Varvara knows her family will stop at nothing to get their money back.
‘Bring it on’, she says to no one in particular.

1997 was a year worth remembering. Among its gifts to us were Tony Blair, the demise of Princess Diana and the launch of the Young British Artists, including Damien Hirst.
In this comedy memoir, we're introduced to Martin, a troubled, downtrodden man, who launches himself into 1997 like there's no 1998. When he turns up at the Glastonbury Festival in June, he's hopelessly unprepared for the muddiest festival ever and what it's about to throw at him.
Set against a backdrop of iconic music amid the dying days of Britpop, we're whisked through the year via extracts from Martin's scabrously funny journal. His running commentary is cynical, jaundiced, scathing, mocking, brazen, sweary, ribald, unfeeling, recalcitrant and opinionated – and that’s on a good day!
As the year unfolds, he lurches from one disastrous situation to the next, ruining relationships and antagonising the people around him. As his demeanour darkens and his behaviour deteriorates, the people around him try to see the funny side. Are they laughing with him? Or at him?
When he emerges from the wreckage of Glastonbury, only one question remains – who’s going to save him from himself?
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