Patrick Barber Writings

Return to the Green Silence: Start the Eldros Psionica Series for FREE The era of corporate rule is breaking. OmniCorp thought they had the world perfectly sanitized and controlled, but there is a rot beneath the foundations of Nexopolis. If you haven’t stepped into the world of Eldros Psionica yet, your timing couldn't be better. To celebrate the massive launch of Book 2 ( The Proxy ), I am making the novel that started the nightmare completely FREE on Amazon Kindle for the next five days. In Eldros Psionica: Varek Tor , we follow Varek—a TitanTech heavy weapons specialist and a "Null" whose mind has been cauterized against psychic intrusion—and his rookie partner, Voss. What begins as a standard corporate data retrieval in a toxic wasteland quickly spirals into a fight for survival against Dr. Evelyn Moreau's horrifying "Project Ascension." This isn't your standard cyberpunk espionage thriller. This is a descent into a subterranean nightmare where hig...

A New Beginning... The Board thinks they own Nexopolis. And for centuries, they’ve been right. They botted the neon, trademarked the cybernetics, and sanitized the grid. It’s a flawless grift—until you meet Voss. Voss is OmniCorp’s ghost in the machine. A heavily augmented enforcer with no senti­ment and a reputation for resolving the "unfortunate situations" the Executives want buried. He moves through the elite sectors and the grimy streets like a surgeon, clinical and brutal. He knows the rules of the corporate game by heart. But The Proxy isn't about the game he knows. It's about what happens when the floor of reality drops out from under you. A new job plunges Voss into the darkest corner of the city foundations—places where OmniCorp’s standard-issue kinetic-shields and thermal sensors are useless. He finds himself isolated, trapped in a subterranean nightmare where magic isn't corporate property... it’s an archaic, suffocating cosmic weight. He is hunted by...

FILE 002: THE BLEEDING FREIGHT From the Archives of the Historian: Nexopolis, 4200 XE. The towering arcologies of the Techno District are bathed in sterile light, but the foundation of this city is built on shadows. In the labyrinthine Undercity, the mega-corporations hold no power. Here, the Shadow Network controls the flow of illicit Arcanetech, moving stolen psionic amplifiers through the dark. But when you smuggle technology designed to channel the void, you run the risk of the void looking back. The following is an intercepted audio-log from a known subterranean courier. Read the unsealed records below to discover what truly bleeds in the dark... The lower transit tunnels of Nexopolis didn’t hum with electricity like the upper sectors; they rattled. They groaned. They sounded like the dying breaths of a rusted iron beast. Oren Red preferred it that way. The noise covered his tracks. Oren was a smuggler for the Shadow Network, a man whose loyalty was bought with hard credits and w...

What happens when the ultimate payload becomes the ultimate trap? In my latest novella, The Tartarus Drift , the line between technology and biology doesn't just blur—it bleeds. If you are a fan of claustrophobic survival horror, unreliable realities, and the dark, unforgiving vacuum of deep space, this is a boarding party you won't want to miss. The Setup: The story follows Captain Elias and the desperate, debt-ridden crew of the salvage tug Scrapper’s Luck . Drifting in the dead zone, they stumble upon the holy grail of space salvage: the USC Tartarus , a monolithic military dreadnought that vanished without a trace twenty years ago. It’s completely dark. Completely silent. It is a goldmine just waiting to be stripped. But when the crew breaches the frozen airlock and attempts to restore backup power, they trigger a catastrophic quarantine lockdown. The Switch: The Tartarus Drift begins as a tense, high-stakes technothriller and rapidly descends into a visceral psychologic...

FILE 001: The Resonance of Data From the Archives of the Historian: Nexopolis, 4200 XE. Within the polished glass-and-chrome towers of the Techno District, the true horrors aren't always lurking out in the Wastelands. Sometimes, they are written into the company ledger. The mega-corporations of Eldros wield absolute power, pushing the boundaries of science and magic to terrifying extremes. Arcanetech Innovations is a pioneer in this dangerous frontier, developing technologies that harness raw eldritch energy. But what happens to the ordinary employees tasked with processing the data of the void? Read the unsealed corporate logs below to discover the price of progress... The sterile, white glow of the monitor was giving Corin a migraine, but in the Techno District of Nexopolis, a headache was just another metric of productivity. Corin Vance was a Tier-3 Data Analyst at Arcanetech Innovations, a corporation renowned for blurring the line between science and the arcane. From his slee...

  It’s official. After a year of writing, world-building, and diving deep into the darkest corners of my imagination, Eldros Psionica: Book One - Varek Tor is finally LIVE. If you know me, you know I live in multiple worlds—music, code, AI. But for a long time, I’ve been living on Eldros . It’s a world of corporate feudalism, industrial grit, and a terrifying energy source called the Fel that defies physics and rewrites biology. The Story Varek Tor is a legend in the underground. They call him "The Survivor" because he walked out of a mining disaster that liquefied two hundred men. He thinks he was lucky. But when he takes a standard contract to investigate a silent outpost in the desolate Wastes, he finds out that his luck has run out. Sector Deep-9 isn’t just a mine; it’s a tomb. And the horrors waiting in the dark aren’t trying to kill him—they’re waiting for him. Why You Should Read It I wrote this book for fans of Dead Space , Warhammer 40k , and gritty, industrial sci...