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Maria Marsden W.A.R.P.

Book 1 of The Thought Plague Series

Science Fiction
English
12536 Words
Ages 16 and up
185
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WARNING – This book is contagious. The author was suffering from the Thought-Plague when she wrote it. It’s a satirical Kafkaesque critique of the mental health system in the U.K. set in a parallel science-fiction future. The book is based on the author’s surreal-life experiences in a parallel world in which a permanent state of dissociation is the norm. “IF YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE, DON’T SMOKE TOO MUCH, DON’T DRINK TOO MUCH AND DON’T THINK TOO MUCH. TO AVOID ANOTHER THOUGHT PLAGUE EPIDEMIC, PLEASE REPORT ANY SUSPICIOUS OVER-THINKING IMMEDIATLEY.” “Someone must have reported Kay Joseph. She knew that she was of no immediate danger to herself or others, but, one morning, she was WARPED under section 22.5(b) of Psyberia’s National Wellbeing and Recovery Protocol, (WARP). When Psyberia was established as a quarantine and processing island, the elite High Permaniacs in the southern Altered States of Mania created the ‘Psyber Skin’, an anti-viral nano-tech psychic defence barrier around Psyberia’s borders. On the 7.30am news this morning, Kay heard more reports of violence erupting through the ‘Psyber Skin’. The Transylmaniacs had invaded through The Skin and were now penetrating the minds of the higher functioning Psyberians. Psyber Skin Hackers and Psy-Kick Investigators, like Kay’s friend Adam, were particularly prone to Psy-Kick attack, as were users of Cat-A-Tonic. Being possessed or Psy-Kickally attacked wasn’t Kay’s worst fear. Her worst fear was that this had already happened to her and that it was in some way connected to ‘the treatment’. She felt that more and more, each day, the life was slowly getting sucked out of her and she was being drained to death. She didn’t know what would happen if she was Psy-Kicked. Would she end up back in virtual hospital or would she end up killing herself like Adam did?” [more]

Keywords: autistic, spectrum, self-harm, psychiatric, survivors, aspergers, Kafka, Kafkaesque, dystopia, science fiction, voice hearers, thought, plague, zombies, stories, big bad wolf, satire, fiction, experiences of the psychiatric system [more][Less]

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Anand Bose Diaspora

Fiction
English
13924 Words
Ages 12 and up
56
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This is an experimental work of fiction; the fiction is in a narrative mode of being an aesthetic philosophy. The work portrays the beauty of pathos. There are glimpses of surrealism. There is also a play with figures of speech. There is a remarkable rendition of poetic prose. The carnival of human life is put in the palette of the pen in ironic humor. The work is an existential search for the meaning of life to be found in the celebration of catharsis. [more]

Keywords: Novelette, Fiction, Orgasm, Postmodern Fiction, Narrative, Experimental Fiction, Philosophic Fiction, Streams of consciousness, Kafkaesque, Surrealism, Idioms

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Alexander Besher THE MANGA MAN - A NOVEL OF NEUROFUTURE

Science Fiction
English
21028 Words
Ages 16 and up
234
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I’m here to participate in the live study of an electromagnetically-induced earthquake. This one registered at a whopping 13.2 points on the Tesla Scale. That’s never happened before. An E-’Quake is the perfect super-weapon. Who would ever suspect it? It’s both invisible and untraceable. Oh, nature has been manipulated for reasons of state before. Take the ‘Great Gobi Sandstorm’ of 2032, for example. Hundreds of thousands of rebel Muslims were buried alive in China’s Far West Xinjiang Province. That was a beta-test for a certain type of military operation. But that event occurred almost thirty years ago when the science was still primitive. It was messy. Too messy. How do you explain all that real-time sand turning into mud? The Manga Man – the new novel by Alexander Besher (born in China in 1951), author of the RIM trilogy (nominated for the 1994 Philip K. Dick Award; illustrated by German artist Christian Dörge. [more]

Keywords: Apex-Verlag, Science Fiction, SF, SciFi, Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk, Post-Cyberpunk, novel, future, near future, dark future, dystopia, Asia, Japan, China, USA, Manga, Animé, literature, sophisticated, virtual reality, Kafkaesque, drama, action, violence, art, ebook, Ebook, E-Book, first publication, new publication 2021 [more][Less]

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Miha Mazzini Erased

The State Wiped Out Her Identity, Now They Are Coming For Her Child

Fiction
English
68598 Words
Ages 16 and up
138
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This story is based on true events. Governments are not only collecting the information about the citizens, sometimes they are destroying or manipulating them too.Zala gives birth at the local hospital and everything goes well. There is only a small, bureaucratic problem; Zala's file is not on the computer. A software glitch, probably nothing serious. Within a few days, Zala is entangled in a web of Kafkaesque proportions; Not being in the computer means no social security, no permanent address. All of a sudden Zala is a foreigner, even though she has lived in Slovenia all of her life. Legally, she doesn’t exist. So, her child is an orphan. And orphans are put up for adoption.On 26th February 1992 the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Slovenia erased 25,671 people who were born outside Slovenia, in the states that once were part of Yugoslavia: Some of them thought themselves Slovenians until they have to show their identity card. The majority of them still have no legal status. [more]

Keywords: legal, drama, mother, child

$9.49

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