holohaus-2

the future of serial fiction.

holohaus returns for its second iteration with six works from the futures to the seconds in the present, between apocalypses and the unreal.

Swords Under the Phosphor Sky / Nekosattva

teen soldiers, influencers, internet culture, satire, near future, Eastern Europe, Zone, literary, modernism

>>chapter 02

another shift at the pizza joint for yelena, spending coins at the arcade where a click of the plastic trigger soon blends into the clatters of machinery from trucks entering into the desert as she searches for christine. welcome to the zone.

Mercenary Planet / Gabriel Wainio Theberge / Escher McDonell

military sf, first contact, speculative science, space exploration, leftist, butch transfem protagonist, black transfem love interest, social realism, messy relationships, strategy, complex factions, very weird aliens, lesbian space atrocities, rationalfic, dark hopepunk, bittersweet

>>entry 02 / Grace & Effort:

with her brother jax, leona tries to continue her life with halation as they learn to translate each other’s experiences from the planetary to the familiar strifes at the dinner table conducted in silence

Scarred Zeruel /vape escapist

abstract, experimental, modernism, cyber-surrealism, dreampunk, reality ambiguity, multiple storylines, smart drugs, wetware, magitech, speculative religion, unfamiliar terminology



>>violation 02:Kind People ShouldNever Be Treated Like Empty Arms(Σ)

Lesia awakens in a robotic body pursued by Recyclers, with no defense but her tactica; Chere dreams alone in her Habitex through the holic choker.

Psychogramma/ caraparcel

cyberpunk, vaporwave, dreampunk, virtual reality, detective, gunfights, episodic, conspiracy, internet culture, urban legends, cyber-spirituality, anime influence, atmospheric prose, urban, firearms

>>protocol 02.1 / transfer i

virtual currency crisis forces the mega-corps to pivot their activities to physical trade within the real world, and foxtel enters its empty streets.

It's a Good Thing the Dark Lord is a Shut-in! / baroquespiral

light novel, hikkikomori protagonist, mental illness, psychological realism, OCD, internal monologue, modern fantasy world, low realism, cringe comedy, multiple storylines, worldbuilding, conspiracy, speculative religion, otaku culture, internet culture

>>failure 02 / Curse

searching on the feed, luskonneg encounters a user known as the seer in the half-light indulging in fantasies that further stain his bedsheets; braz discovers an approaching danger in the underground districts

Down by the River to Pray / Amara Reyes

solarpunk, interplanetary civilization, alternate history, space habitat, artificial ecosystem, human speciation, speculative religion, speculative gender, uplifted animals, bureaucracy, noblebright, dialogue heavy, experimental dialogue

>>Record 02 / relating the course of three initial interrogations, and the first suspicions to surface

preliminary interviews reveal tensions between the various actors, but cannot account for the strange energies beckoning from savannah’s interior