The APEX Cycle

Exclusive collected edition, featuring Footage, Beyond Footage, and a short story set within the APEX universe.

In a city of 10 million, under glass eyes of six million cameras, one man evades their networked stares, and watches those who are watched. It had always been Jared's passion to observe, and for the last 15 years, it had been his job. His days were spent deducing the stories of strangers' lives from momentary glimpses of present actions in streets, train stations, and airports. Filming every moment.

He knows you. Your past. Your future. He knows he's being hunted by a man who's more than human. He knows he needs to leave the country, and most of all, he knows the voices aren't real. But what if they are?

Sarah is a burnout. Her 20s have been wasted in a psychedelic haze. Now she wants to be sober and avoid temptation, so she joins a clinical trial to be sequestered away from the world. Paranoia flows. Weird experiments are carried out on the participants' waking and sleeping bodies. They realize the trial is changing them. Programming them. Installing false memories and removing emotions.

The network wants a revolution. Thanks to the company that experimented on them, they have the means. But the company is prepared for the coming battle and have an ace up their sleeve. And one by one, they're taking the network down. As allegiances sway, Sarah finds herself isolated from the group. And her only hope is to find a man who may not exist.

On the run, hunted by AI and pursued by the law, there's nowhere they can hide. But the network is no longer interested in hiding. They're ready to take centre stage and tell the world what was done to them.