Sam Lacoste on Moving Cyberpunk Forward
French author Sam Lacoste talks cyberpunk, grimdark, Monsters, and why a genre built around the future can’t afford to keep looking backward.
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New Free Fiction from Kelly J. Burke
Meet Silent. He doesn’t talk much. Doesn’t have to. The wasteland has a way of speaking for itself. Cracked concrete highways. Twisted rebar skeletons. Dusty grit in your eyes, and a sun that doesn’t care if you live or die. And Silent? He’s still out there. Driving. Fighting. Surviving. The First Cut is the Deepest …
New Free Fiction from Colus E.M.
In Colas E.M.’s latest short story, Broken Revenant, we’re pulled into a world that feels like it never left the early ‘90s, the golden age of cyberpunk. Except this time, the chrome is tarnished, the wiring exposed, and the soul… complicated. This new addition to our Free Fiction Library explores the raw underside of transhumanism. …
The Nameless Gate
In ancient East Asian philosophy, the northeast direction is known as kimon, or the “Demon’s Gate”. It is considered a highly inauspicious direction from which evil spirits (oni or yōkai) enter and bring misfortune. Throughout history, there have been many paths to the nameless gate. None of them are straight.
