holohaus-5

the future of serial fiction.

holohaus returns 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

>>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 05

yelena and natalia take sanctuary in a hospital under fire and continue learning the ways of nay-toe

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 05 / Message & Menace:

as a newly formed military force prepares to leave earth (and leona begins to build her own covert networks), the us government makes one last desperate bid for control.

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 05:Put Youon a Noter(Σ)

Hexa escapes dream-slavery to the starpaths where Lesia, on a dangerous mission for the Patrons to the stabs of technodeath, intersects with Chere

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 distinegrating in electric signals, one bullet at a time.

>>protocol 03.1

foxtel and viper visit the successful american city-state that was once atlanta, meet overseas operators and uncover a network making nefarious use of virtual doubles

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 05 / Indigestion of Memory

luskonneg experiments on his own consciousness in hopes of recovering a narrative worth sharing with a connoisseur of bizarre narratives, while an unknown enemy sows distrust behind the lines of the containment operation

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 05 / towards the grave tree

the crew of the umihotaru weighs past failures of human ambition and comes to grasp the scope of that of the tengmu