Abstract
PsyBot is a literary technothriller, both gritty and poetic, about virtual reality and the consequences of choice. Blending psychological suspense and magic realism with sci-fi tropes of alternate timelines, artificial intelligence, mind control, corporate conspiracy and astral projection, this noir nod to cyberpunk traces the quest of Joe Norton for survival, sanity and love. The offbeat, surrealistic narrative verges on metafiction, as the self-deprecating hero navigates a bizarre cybernetic mind-bender, a hacked program set to unleash on an unsuspecting world.