Post-cyberpunk Stories

Alex Kane lives in west-central Illinois, where he works as a freelancer, plays too many first-person shooters, and blogs about culture and technology in his spare time. A graduate of the 2013 Clarion West Writers Workshop, his stories have appeared in Omni, Spark, Digital Science Fiction, and the YA anthology Futuredaze, among other places. Follow him on Twitter @alexjkane. In the Arms of Lachiga contains 10 thrilling, fast-paced stories that range from postcyberpunk-flavored space opera to slipstream fantasy, some appearing for the first time. Visit the author online at alexkanefiction.com, or on Twitter where he tweets as @alexjkane. Contents: Introduction “El Mirador” “Headcase” “Where All Roads Meet” “In the Arms of Lachiga” “Touching from a Distance” “We’ll Own the Stars” “War Dogs” “Moonbound” “To Meet the Light” “An Apocalypse of Her Own, One Day”

A story of those who foolishly decided to live in a walled city where it never stops raining. Note: Written entirely by ZN because I'm so bad at planning the others can't help me. (Even Z1 tried helping it just didn't work) Note the second: Update schedule: Extremely erratic. Note the third: It will have robots in the future. Note the fourth: No mature tag for now but I may change it if I feel like it.

China Miéville writes that "[w]e need utopia, but to try to think utopia, in this world, without rage, without fury, is an indulgence we can't afford [...] we cannot think utopia without hate." Working a new Near Future post-cyberpunk "Grunge" or "Salvagepunk" Noir: bleak and pessimistic, yet full of hope for all that. A broken world full of our own world's dark truths, dreams, and nightmares. Schizoanalytic psychoscape of tears done up in dark humor and cataleptic laughter. An anti-hero you can hate and love at the same time. A sort of Warren Ellis Spider Jerusalem reject bound to a anti-consumerist / anti-corporate media-scape slippage. It goes against consumerist society and fights for our rights to be free from the ownership of corporations, media and society. Grunge is about freedom, pure and simple. It's stepping away from self-absorption and starting to care about the people around you. It's protesting against the fixation of beauty and perfection and letting us know that appearance doesn't matter. Ugly is the new beautiful. It's realizing that happiness doesn't come from fortune and fame, rather the opposite: the guttersnipe dreams of fools and madmen, lovers and old hags, children and mothers. The punk of salvagepunk is what makes it revolutionary. Punk is not the commodified and commercialize image of Mohawked teens with pins through noses. It is certainly not the PVC slick technological wet dream of cyberpunk with its Deleuzian 'intense' nomadic multitudes and immaterial labour. Nor is it the "false dream image" of steampunk,where "its falseness lies in it being the wrong dream image, the ideological blind that is the dream image proper to the liberal escape plan for the contemporary crisis and its envisioned fall-out". Punk is thus the "deep fidelity to its historical moment and the fact it no longer believed in a future - the present is already the hollowed out present of that future". © All Rights Reserved by S.C. Hickman

Science for a changing world. ©2019

Nine brand-new stories from the nine sub-genres covered by Tevun Krus in 2021, all written by nine of your favourite Tevun-Krus contributors! Enjoy this anthology and a trip through space and time, 'troopers!