Fragment of Chrome: A Cyberpunk Noir Story

Winner of the Indies Today 2026 Best Action/Adventure Award

Second Place, The BookFest Book Awards 2026 - Science Fiction/Cyberpunk

"An engaging read that lingers long after you've finished it." -Readers' Favorite

"Atmosphere just oozes out of every page of this book." -Bookshelfie

"For fans of authors like William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Philip K. Dick, this could be your next cyberpunk treat." -Bookshelfie

In a flooding Ocean City where corporations own the streets and chrome replaces weakness, mercenary Corren "Psyche" Vega has spent years becoming the perfect weapon-emotionless, efficient, incapable of the mistakes that got his brother killed.

When his team is hired to recover stolen technology, the job pulls them into a shadow war playing out in Ocean City's underworld. As the mission spirals beyond a simple theft, Psyche must choose: complete his transformation into the disposable weapon this world demands, or risk remembering what it means to be human.

In the divide between carbon and steel, humanity isn't lost in a single moment. It's traded away, one piece at a time, until all that remains is the question: Was it worth the cost?

A Fragment of Chrome is the award-winning debut novel from Finnish writer Miikka Rautioaho and the first book of The Carbon-Steel Divide series.