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Science Fiction from the Human Struggle
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ISBN13: 9798264306662
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 15 2025
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 15 2025
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This collection of stories revolves around a singular theme: control. Corporate systems, ecological mutations, bureaucratic tolerances, illusions, and webs all press against the fragile boundaries of human choice. Some endings bend toward irony, where the system smothers will. Some sink into tragedy, where the cost is measured in blood or memory. Others speak with tenderness, finding life in unexpected growth. A few stand in defiance, refusing surrender even when resistance seems futile.
The sequence of stories is intentional. The story begins with a noir bite, transitions into an ecological breath in the center, turns into satire and paranoia in the middle, collapses into memory and trust near the end, and concludes with a small spark of defiance. This rhythm lets irony bite, tragedy weigh, tenderness breathe, and defiance burn. Read them in order, as a single arc. They are stories of systems, but more than that, they are stories of people who fear, endure, laugh, break, and sometimes act. Together they form a map of the future we may yet inherit and of the stubborn human spark that no system has yet extinguished.
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