holohaus-4

the future of serial fiction.

holohaus returns with seven 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

>>synopsis:

yelena wanders the zone populated by paramilitaries, influencers and the children of napalm and static breeding across the desert until even its sands dye into the blue-light glimpsed before artillery fire

>>chapter 04

yelena and natalia enter a bazaar presided over by nay-toe, a collection of symbols and wares familiar to the shopping mall and plazas where she finds a trace of christine on a dead iphone

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

>>synopsis:

clinging to a single desperate prayer, leona meets halation, a visitor from that supposed better world once held remote by the thousands of atrocities that littered the earth, and draws war and peace towards a collision spanning the galaxy.

>>entry 04 / Conscience & Competence:

leona-halation and edison lens prepare for an assault by giant cellular organisms that feed on software systems but as she prepares, she must finally encounter the one who once shared her starry sky

Scarred Zeruel / vape escapist

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



>>synopsis:

several inhabitants in this digital, how could our affections still travel between the thousand strands of data between us

>>violation 04: Everything Is Barely Missed (ε/ Δ)

Cammy, Morgan and Dear meet in EXILE and journey to the Chapel.

Psychogramma / caraparcel

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

>>synopsis:

users wander the infinite plazas within their internal os. foxtel, one such user, darts between each of these old worlds disintegrating in electric signals, one bullet at a time.

>>protocol 02.3 / transfer iii

producer creates a task force to apprehend all members of the secret society platinum torus helio, and returning to the wired with a new technique known as step-transfer from samhain, foxtel approaches their heavily guarded high rises and manors. may the spectacle ensue amidst the exchanges.

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

>>synopsis:

luskonneg remains dormant by a curse and a conspiracy. social peril, online conflicts and miniscule destructions litter the interior of the small Pandora’s box of his life, a hidden cornerstone on which stands an unstable world.

>>failure 04 / Thistle of Pain:

luskonneg goes outside and once again faces humiliations and a world that seems all too real, as his innate powers and fragile sanity begin to tremble

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

>>synopsis:

an emissary vessel from the See of Delphi, learned lawyers and messengers of the Sun, descend to the garden habitat of Savannah to uncover the nature of a mysterious project that might change the very key of the song of humanity.

>>Record 04 / concerning the discovery of a murder

entering savannah, emerly's team is shown the grounds and the final, hidden party in their negotiations: the tengmu, whose childlike vision could bring conflict to the long-harmonious species of humanity