Connection Timeout — My First Cyberpunk Tech-Thriller

Sep 8, 2025 - ⧖ 3 min
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📡 "In 2030 Barcelona, freedom runs on mesh protocols."
Connection Timeout: The PingStarved Chronicles — where real tech meets
cyberpunk resistance against the surveillance machine.

🚨 Hello Fellow Hackers and Cyberpunks

After 12 months of code, research, and late-night terminal sessions, I'm both excited and nervous to drop my first tech-thriller into the wild. Connection Timeout: The PingStarved Chronicles is finally here — and this isn't your typical cyberpunk fiction.

This is cyberpunk written by someone who lives in the trenches of hacking, offensive security, organizing, and digital activism. Every protocol mentioned? Real. Every exploit technique? Tested. Every piece of hacker culture? Authentic.

🌐 The Story

Set in 2030 Barcelona, follow Andrés "PingStarved" Reyes — a 56-year-old hacker caught between protecting his estranged son and surrendering a revolutionary mesh networking protocol that could liberate global communications from corporate control.

When surveillance capitalism reaches its final form, sometimes the only resistance is a mesh packet traveling through the underground.

⚡ What Makes This Different

  • 🔗 Real Mesh Protocols: Features actual Meshtastic and Reticulum implementations
  • 🛠️ Authentic Exploits: Based on real security research and techniques from the field
  • 🏗️ Current Tech Foundation: Grounded in technologies we're building today
  • 👥 Hacker Culture DNA: Written from inside the community, not as an outsider looking in

This isn't Hollywood's version of "hacking." This is what it actually looks like when privacy tech meets resistance culture.

📊 Technical Specs

  • 📖 Length: 29,429 words (86 pages)
  • ⏱️ Reading Time: 2-3 hours
  • 💾 Formats: PDF and EPUB
  • 💰 Price: $4.99

🛒 Get Your Copy

🌍 Available Worldwide

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🔓 DRM-Free Everywhere: All versions (Kindle and direct download) are completely DRM-free. Own your books, read them anywhere, share them freely.

🎯 For Fans Of...

If you're into Neuromancer, Little Brother, or Mr. Robot — this explores similar themes of surveillance capitalism, digital liberty, and technological resistance. But it's grounded in the real mesh networks and privacy protocols we're deploying today.

🔥 Final Transmission

This has been a labor of love, combining everything I know about privacy tech, resistance culture, and the fight against surveillance capitalism into a narrative that I hope resonates with our community.

As someone with decades of experience in hacking, offensive security, organizing, and digital activism but never written fiction before, I poured my entire understanding of what we're really fighting for into these pages.

Any feedback from the hacker community would mean everything. This is my first step into fiction, but definitely not my last.

The mesh is the message. The protocol is the resistance.

Stay free, stay meshed.

-- ReK2
Author, Hacker, Digital Rights Activist

🔧 Tech Notes

  • Story features real Meshtastic LoRa implementations
  • Reticulum protocol usage for off-grid communications
  • Authentic pentesting and social engineering techniques
  • Barcelona tech scene and surveillance infrastructure
  • 2030 tech projections based on current development trends

Remember: Hacking is not a crime.
Privacy is a human right.