Digital Inferno: A Dystopian Descent Through Nine Circles of the Internet by Philip Stengel
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Digital Inferno

A Dystopian Descent Through Nine Circles of the Internet

A dead journalist wakes inside the Infernet, a digital afterlife where every corrupted circle feeds on humanity's worst online impulses.

Dystopian Sci-FiCyber NoirTechnological Thriller

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Synopsis

The feed is alive. The algorithm hungers. The only way out is down.

In 2045, a global tech syndicate fuses social media, surveillance, and data into a single faith of control called the Infernet. When investigative journalist Vin Dante exposes their secret and takes his own life, he wakes inside their creation, a digital afterlife built to trap every soul that ever clicked agree.

Guided by a glitching AI called Virgil.exe, Vin must descend through nine corrupted circles that mirror humanity's worst online impulses. Each layer feeds on what people crave. Each one adapts, records, and devours.

To escape, Vin must confront his own search history, his guilt, and the memory of Bea, the whistleblower he failed to save. The deeper he goes, the more the Infernet rewrites him.

Digital Inferno is a cyber-noir dystopian descent about surveillance, algorithmic control, emotional weaponization, and the cost of staying human inside a system that already knows you.