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Scion

Scion

CyberpunkScience Fiction
Pages
240
Published
2026
Language
English

Synopsis

In a future where the ultra-wealthy can live forever, professional hitmen serve as the only real check on their power. One such assassin, genetically built for the job, treats state-sanctioned killing like any other boring office gig. But a new assignment that breaks his usual routine threatens to upend his carefully managed life of debt and violence.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

DarkGrittyTenseSatirical
Anti-HeroMorally GreyMystery Box

Genres

Cyberpunk Science Fiction Thriller Adventure

About the author

J
James Islington

James Islington is an Australian fantasy author, best known for The Licanius Trilogy (The Shadow of What Was Lost, An Echo of Things to Come, The Light of All That Falls) and the Hierarchy series (The Will of the Many, The Strength of the Few), as well as the standalone novel Scion. He previously ran a tech startup before turning to writing full-time in his early thirties. He lives on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, with his wife and two children.

Characters

Azure (Scion)Protagonist

A cybernetically enhanced assassin working for the crime syndicate the Keres, hired to protect (or possibly kill) an elderly, immensely wealthy woman while investigating the mysterious death of his best friend.

AttiSupporting

Azure's AI assistant.

All characters in Scion