No, I don’t mean the iPhone software. I mean the world – one of three worlds that my main character will unintentionally travel to during my November novel. Yessir, folks, I’m not divulging any details yet, because if I did this logo and the mere mention of Cydia would be a huge spoiler. In fact, you most likely won’t hear much more about Cydia until just before November, because it won’t become a major force in the plot until about halfway through my novel.

I will say that Cydia is a cyberpunk-themed world, whose inhabitants are all cybernetically linked together in a giant neural network, a “We Are Google” situation, if you will. Thus the entire planet shares a single consciousness; in fact, most of its inhabitants don’t even have bodies, but spend their time suspended in “the cloud.” If they truly want to walk upon the surface, they can rent host bodies – any body they like – and use them temporarily to interact with the real world.

But this has absolutely no hold on the first half of my novel, because the main character will be spending all of his time in a different world – which I haven’t named yet – a steampunk-themed world. Most of the novel will surround this steampunk world. While I may have made a “logo” for Cydia, I’ve created most of the society of the steampunk world. All it really lacks is a name.

The third world, of course, is Earth. You’ll see how Earth comes into plays between these two worlds in November. With that, I present the logo for Cydia, which is strewn across its streets – the real ones and the ones in The Cloud – as a representative “flag” of Cydia. It is nicknamed “The Leaf,” and represents the free-flowing nature of the society as a whole. A leaf will drift in the wind, as Cydia drifts through space and its inhabitants through The Cloud. In addition, “The Leaf” has veins that appear to glow, and it has a shine to it, representing Cydia’s triumph of technology over nature. There are no real trees on Cydia.