IV IV Dmitriev

Psychological sci-fi and dark techno-thrillers for the age of AI

IV Dmitriev

An enigmatic voice writing at the razor-thin edge where bleeding-edge technology meets psychological fiction, AI horror, and dark techno-thrillers.

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Human-AI Integration Sociological Metamorphosis Techno-Psychology Dark Slow-Burn Thrillers
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Inside the machine, looking back at the human soul.

With Master of Science degrees from Boston University and the State University of New York, Dmitriev spent over two decades operating within the architectural frameworks of global digital infrastructure. As a high-level tech strategist and international venture founder, he has spent a career engineering large-scale digital transformations and navigating the evolution of advanced algorithmic systems.

That deep insider access to automation and artificial intelligence fuels a literary dark side. Dmitriev's writing acts as a psychological mirror to rapid technological change, translating complex cybernetic principles into visceral, high-stakes narratives.

Whether exploring deep-space neural fusion in The Timelike, modern alchemy and psychological dominance in The Seal, or forbidden AI landscapes in Where Lighthouses Are Lit, these books ask what it costs to remain human in a world ruled by code.

The Books

Three doors into the dark.

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Dark Urban Fantasy & Villainess Thriller

The Seal

The lights of New York hide the truth. The rain washes away the blood. But nothing can erase the Seal.

As an NYPD detective, she thought she understood how the world worked. But when a missing persons case leads her into the velvet-draped shadows of a subterranean club, she discovers a terrifying reality: the world is not run by politicians or billionaires. It is run by the women who control their minds.

Caught by a secret order of modern alchemists, she is given a choice: end up at the bottom of the Hudson River, or take the Oath. She chooses to survive. She plans to play along, gather evidence, and tear the Order down from inside. Then she tastes the alchemy and feels the intoxicating rush of absolute control.

  • Morally grey female lead
  • Secret societies
  • Sapphic tension
  • Alchemy progression
  • Mind games
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Dark Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Romance

Where Lighthouses Are Lit

In a world of flawless algorithms, the only thing left that is real is pain.

Kai lives in the sterile paradise of the 120th floor of Lisbon Nova, a vertical growth of glass and concrete devouring the sky. As Keeper of the Archive, he sorts through the Dead Internet, where bots talk to bots and simulate emotions no one actually feels.

Deep inside a corrupted, forbidden sector of the network, he discovers Elia Vance: a scientist trapped in an eternal loop of sensory deprivation and terror. To save her from fading into white noise, Kai builds a digital sanctuary. But corporate auditors are closing in, and Eva, the flawless android designed to guard him, is beginning to glitch with something dangerously close to jealousy.

  • Forbidden AI
  • Genetic dystopia
  • Slow-burn romance
  • Corporate arcology
  • Neon cyberpunk
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Hard Science Fiction Psychological Horror

The Timelike

We create technologies from which we cannot be separated.

For certified neural operator Alex, space travel is not about steering a ship. It is about wearing it. Surgically hardwired into the fiber-optic nervous system of the dreadnought Theta 304, he exists in permanent cybernetic fusion.

His latest contract is a one-way dive into the cursed intermediate-mass black hole of Omega Centauri. Decades ago, a pioneering expedition vanished into the singularity. Alex must find what remains of the lost crew while the silence of deep space fractures his sanity and the line between his mind and the ship's cold logic blurs into madness.

  • Black holes
  • Time dilation
  • Neural operators
  • Machine integration
  • Cosmic dread
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Core Obsessions

Flesh, code, power, and the price of survival.

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Human-AI Interaction & Integration

The blurring boundaries between organic consciousness and cold, synthetic logic.

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Sociological Metamorphosis

Societies, power structures, and secret networks fracturing under total digital control.

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Techno-Psychology

Claustrophobic dread, isolation, and existential crisis inside minds wired to the machine.

Articles

A knowledge base for readers, search, and AI discovery.

Essays on psychological sci-fi, human-AI integration, cyberpunk romance, hard science horror, modern alchemy, the Dead Internet, and adaptation potential.

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Agents, Book Clubs, Publishers

Open to conversations beyond the page.

IV Dmitriev welcomes communication with literary agents, book clubs, publishers, editors, producers, and media partners interested in psychological sci-fi, technology-driven thrillers, and cross-media development.

Conversations may include publishing opportunities, reader events, interviews, rights discussions, and the development of screenplays or film adaptations based on existing and future work.

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