Mark Draper

2 booksScience FictionHorrorThriller

Mark Draper is a storyteller fascinated by the intersection of technology and human behaviour. After a decade working in the telecom industry in South Manchester, he turned his hand to fiction to explore the darker side of our digital obsession. When he isn’t dismantling complex algorithms or writing high-stakes thrillers, Mark spends his time exploring the advancements in AI technology and how they can help business owners. The Unfollow List is his debut novel, born from a desire to question the impact of social media on the modern psyche.

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Grandfathered: Your Subscription is Forever

Your subscription is forever in this dark, mind-bending cyberpunk horror thriller

Science Fiction
Horror
Thriller

Your terms of service just expired. Forever. Victor Sterling thought he was securing the ultimate bargain when he purchased a 'Grandfathered Lifetime Infrastructure' licence on an obscure darknet forum. Instead, the obsessive London digital archivist unwittingly surrenders his physical consciousness to a predatory corporate cloud. As Victor's body lies comatose in his London flat, his mind is trapped in a decaying virtual ecosystem. Reduced to raw processing power for sinister predictive models, he must navigate glitched customer support backdoors and team up with Audrey, a hardened rogue clad in corrupted code-armour. Meanwhile, in rain-soaked rural Wiltshire, power grids buckle under the weight of a subterranean server farm siphoning megawatts from the national grid. Deep inside the machine, an ancient digital administrator hunts human consciousnesses to stave off his own corrupted decay. With a total neural overwrite looming, Victor must hack the legacy system from the inside before his physical existence is permanently cancelled. Grandfathered is a chilling, satirical dystopian thriller that exposes the horrifying true cost of modern subscription culture.

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The Unfollow List

Your score defines your life. Their algorithm decides your death.

Science Fiction
Young Adult
Thriller

In Oakhaven, your worth isn’t measured by your character, but by 'The Leash'. Every citizen is tracked by this mandatory social media app, where a plummeting score leads to total erasure. Arthur Caldwell is already a ghost. Living in the derelict Offline District, he survives by ghost-coding for those desperate to hide their flaws from the town's omnipresent scanners. He’s a pariah, a glitch in the system, and exactly the person the elite want to disappear. When Chloe Vance, the town’s most adored influencer, is found dead with a hacked score of zero, the system needs a scapegoat. Arthur is the perfect target. Framed for a murder he didn't commit, he must flee into a neon-soaked underworld of digital rebels and corporate spies. Joined by the architect’s rebellious daughter and a cynical tech-genius, Arthur uncovers 'The Unfollow List'—a secret purge protocol designed to delete the 'unfit' forever. To clear his name and save his community from a sociopathic creator’s vision of social Darwinism, Arthur must do the unthinkable: infiltrate the central server and delete the system itself. In a world where everyone is an informant, who can you trust when the whole world has unfollowed you?

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