Sci-Fi has always been a setting, pretending to be a genre. Ideas that exist today but are taboo to talk about. Ideas that we never considered until we saw them. Trendlines that exist with an unknown destination.
That’s Sci-Fi. The problems of today wrapped up in the setting of tomorrow.
What problems? What trendline? Half the fun is in finding it. I’ll be sending snippets from the book for you to read and see if it’s your cup of tea. If so, pre orders for the kindle version are live now, release data, August 1.
Ever wanted to watch a sad feminist ally lose it all and learn to be a man?
Enjoy
Conceptual HardcoverTaking Back What’s Yours
He was a world away from Lab126, but everything looked the same. The streets looked like those at home, just quieter. They were in the middle of a three-way war zone but everything looked clean and maintained. The people were gone, but the buildings and the tech were untouched. The signage hanging from every building covered the sky like a canopy. The signals interfered slightly with everything. Buck hacked away at this electronic foliage with a mini transmitter, which disrupted all the devices, desperate for a connection to the wireless which was long since disabled.
Fatahl walked up to Jake and whispered into his aural. She could have connected to his aurals, but she didn’t. Jake’s neck tingled at the feeling of her breath on his face.
“Jake. What’s up. You’re looking sketch.”
“Nothing. This is all just foreign to me.”
“Relax. Buck has been here longer than anyone. If he knows anything, he knows how to survive.”
“I’m sure he does. Once I’ve got the virus for him I guess that’s it for me, right?”
“God, you’re such an idiot. Do you really not know how it works with Kowboys?”
“Treat us like shit. Call us softbones. Fuck my woman then win the war?”
“I told you. I didn’t have any choice.”
“You could have said no.”
“I don’t have any implants to sell. Your eye got you passage. I couldn’t sell anything else.”
“Wait, so he slept with you without consent?”
“They don’t have Fem-Law out here, dummy. You have that brain of yours. Buck has his brawn and his experience. I have my own agency. We work with what we are given.”
“It just seems so, demeaning. You’re a strong independent woman, strongest I’ve ever known. You’re not just a sex object.”
“I am whatever I have to be to get what I need. You best learn to do that, too.”
“And stop calling me an idiot. I gave up my family to be here. I gave up my eye to be here. I’m in the middle of a war zone, so get off my ass.”
Fatahl looked startled, like she didn’t know what to think about Jake’s sudden aggressiveness.
“I’m sorry,” she said. “It’s just hard. I never told you why I was here, did I?”
Buck held his fist in the air. The squad stopped and waited.
“The store is ahead. We have to cross this boulevard. Go, one at a time. If the Buzzers come at least we don’t get wiped out. Jake, don’t be stupid. If you hear a Buzzer, lay flat. You don’t have a chance with a laz so your best bet is for it to think you are dead. Softbone or not, I’m not having you die on me. Han needs you at the Analogue”
