H_Plus

by Matthew Gillies

It began when the first sentient automaton discovered God. Some felt the automaton – newly awakened to how the world could be – stood for a new era in human and automaton cohabitation. Others, however, saw the automaton as an iconoclast threatening the existence of humankind. What happens next became the cataclysm that shaped the future.
Years later, in the techno-utopian surveillance state of OMEGA II, humankind has transcended beyond flesh and bone. Addicted to bio-enhancements and technological augmentations, humanity has become more artificial than organic. It isn’t long before their second-class counterparts - the automatons - embark on a suffrage movement for equal rights, with a demand to uplift their bodies and undergo species reassignment surgery.
With growing tensions, a looming threat of civil war lingers in the background. Through the political unrest is Olena, a memory harvester with a mysterious past. When she discovers a digital neural virus created to infect the neural chips implanted in humans, she finds herself pulled into a deeper conspiracy.
Together with the aid of a hi-tech mercenary named Kincaid, the two set out on a race against time to stop a civil war from breaking out within the city.

354 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 23, 2025

About the author

MATTHEW GILLIES is a Canadian dark fantasy, horror and science fiction author who began his adventure into literary fiction at an early age. Since he was a young boy, he’s long had a passion for telling stories. The day his mom brought home an electric typewriter was the day Matthew knew he wanted to become an author.

Like many emerging authors, the journey to publishing his work has been a long road. At the age of sixteen, Matthew wrote his first horror novel, The Experiment, and promptly followed up with the science fiction novel, The Pig Factory and the cyberpunk novel Oblivious Paradise.

After years of letting his novels sit untouched, he took his dad’s advice about self-publishing and becoming an indie author. What transpired from there was the 2014 release of his debut New Adult horror novel, The Electric Coma Dream.

Voted one of the ten best horror novels of 2014 by horrornovelreviews.com, The Electric Coma Dream continues to be Matthew’s most popular novel, garnering critical acclaim from fans of his writing.

In 2015, Matthew released his dark fantasy novel, The Master & The Servant, as well as the cyberpunk novel, Oblivious Paradise.

As a fan of the cyberpunk genre, Matthew released a stand-alone sequel to Oblivious Paradise entitled H+ before returning to his roots and publishing his first collection of short horror stories in The Acute Physiologies of Grotesque Monstrosities.

His latest novel, EveryWhen is the first book in an epic, fantasy series called the Chronicles of the Godslayers.