The paperback edition of J David Osborne’s cyberpunk epic Gods Fare No Better arrived last week.
Cyclone City is unraveling. A megacity built on ambition, now rotting from the inside—infested with warring cartels, techno-mystics, and assassins stitched together from spare parts.
Kentaro woke up without a past. No memories, no identity—just the faint hum of something monstrous buried inside him. The monks of the Dying World Clerics gave him shelter, a simple life of sweeping floors and weather control. But hunger and ambition claw their way back into his soul, dragging him out of exile—straight into a city that wants him dead.
Now, he’s hacking through cybernetic samurai, battling demonic creatures, and carving his way through assassins built from living myths. His katana whispers forgotten memories, his body pulses with a parasite made of stories, and the city’s fungal heart beats beneath the streets, watching, waiting.
As assassins and apostles clash, Kentaro finds himself tangled in a conspiracy that calls him deeper into the labyrinth of Cyclone City. And at its core, something monstrous stirs.
A mind-melting fusion of cyberpunk, animism, and body horror, Gods Fare No Better is a brutal, electrifying descent into a world where gods, demons, and mycelia fight for the future of a dying world.
Welcome to Neon Hell.
A few months ago JDO asked me to blurb an earlier draft of the book, which was an honour. Of course I said yes:
“Somewhere between BLAME! and Blade Runner is Gods Fare No Better. Hyperviolent cyberpunk animism at full throttle—myth, metal, and memory stitched together by Yarn. The novel drags you through kill contracts, clown massacres, and a boss fight with a giant baby—all while something ancient pulses beneath the streets. It’s mythpunk, it’s body horror, it’s cyberpunk cracked wide open and rewired with fungal dreams.” – Jay Springett,
You can buy Gods Fare No Better on Amazon or directly from David here.
This book is fully re-written and updated, folding in the first two parts that were previously published as stand alone novellas. Long time subscribers to my zine will remember that I made some fan art based on this book series back in 2023.
Can’t wait to read this edition!
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