Brainjacked

In Bay City, salvation comes with a chip in your skull.

Phil Schooner has spent his life loading cargo on the docks, kept breathing by a failing lung implant he could never afford to replace. When he wins the Shared Vision Implant Lottery, it feels like mercy: new lungs, and the company's flagship MyHUD neural implant thrown in.

But the MyHUD doesn't just keep him alive. It begins to rewire him-sharpening his temper, turning cruelty into pleasure-until, one unrecognizable night, he does the u...