holohaus-6

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 06

the armies and civilians of the glass city reveal their ideologies, their histories and more important to Yelena, the fate of Christine

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 06 / Perception & Overload (The Soldier's Road 1):

arriving on Towers, Leona is caught up on the strategic situation on the porous planet and the nature of the Adipose war, while new divisions emerge within the expeditionary force and a scouting party makes contact

Scarred Zeruel / rumour hell

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 06:The Low Seaof Hate(ε/ Δ)

Orche watches from the Garden as Morgan languishes in the Barrows, separated from his Tender, and Cammy noids out in gamespace

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 03.2

foxtel and aleppo follow the otherworldly face that lures its victims to face and lose themselves, uncovering a surprisingly mundane meaning behind the missing persons

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 06 / Preliminary Excavation

Luskonneg receives an offer of help to prepare for the strange journalist’s interview, but can he pull himself together to prepare for the help?

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 06 / What occurred prior to our Lieutenant’s defection

staking their position between the factions running Savannah and the entrenched positions of the Ecumene, Emelry pulls on an overlooked connection and crosses a risky threshold