holohaus-7

the future of serial fiction.

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

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 07 / Catharsis & Restitution

the mission on Towers might be FUBAR before it begins with their Ahasurunu liaison murdered by a rogue human operator! Leona must move to recapture the perpetrator while simultaneously establishing relations with the locals

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 07: Because of Time We Hold Our Breath (Σ)

Chere crashes from contact with the Frost Giants in a comfortingly arid reality where a pair of crones teach her the subtle alchemy of the holic choker, the mysteries of astralogic and the atrophied humanity of the Ghouls.

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 04.1

through a routine forum search, foxtel uncovers a number transmission that begins to sprawl out its connections, all the while a user known as exxxon serpico challenges them to a duel in the palo shabba server.

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 07 / Your Brain's Controlled Opposition

Luskonneg finally attempts to explain himself to Marzanna as four interviews intertwine in space and time - a younger Luskonneg's gamble on therapy, and the Inquisition's dissections of the forbidden love between Commissioner and [Taboo Preserver]

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 07 / In the city Quay and the seat of the king

rogue at last, Emelry plunges fully into the physical and mental world of the tengmunnin and begins to glimpse a precarious path between the dogmas of the See and the void of independence, the hard-won unity of the Ecumene and a culture already fully its own