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A scholar who cannot read and priest in exile climb to the roof of a dying world in search of their names. The megastructure that was once their home, and their prison, lies in a state of ruin that is overshadowed only by its enormity. Crepuscular Angles follows two perspectives, spanning six periods in time, in a dead world gripped by corporate control, biopunk organ tech, fungal rot, and cassette futurism.

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          The Keys once served as a living host of donor organs, bred from the large reptiles below the City and engineered for human compatibility. Their existence has been one of cages, scalpels, degradation, secrecy, and the pursuit of freedom bought by blood. With a visibly nonhuman appearance, their ability to interact with the City is limited. Freeing their brethren requires assistance from someone able to negotiate a method of Descent from the City to the surface world Below - someone visibly human.

         The Lantern is a priest. His life has been spent in pursuit of the sole sanctioned religion, Direction, until a disastrous break from reality nurses the seeds of doubt implanted by his childhood studies. In him, The Keys finds an unwilling accomplice, driven by his fear of his impending return to the surface world.

         One was born without a name. One has been struck nameless. Both are relegated to sub-human status by the system of second-skin identification through which the City's population is managed. Both seek a better existence, and must rely on each other in order to obtain it. The heat is suffocating, the sea is rising, and the Singing Rot creeps up through the Pillars that support the City. Haunted by the past blending into the present and the bleeding of their personal subjective realities, their only possible route is forward.

         Perfect for fans of Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, The Story of B, and Pathologic, this novel explores the structure of human as an assigned social classification, living with psychosis, and escape.

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  • Speculative Fiction, Biopunk, Horror, Queer.
  • Organ harvesting, hallucinations, social nonhumanity, chronic pain, deprogramming, analog futurism, and homoerotic limb eating.
  • A dystopian corporate-state megastructure constructed in the lower atmosphere, beset with heavy social stratification and a slowly boiling planet.

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Prae Obscura
Updated 9 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryBook
Publisher
Release date May 01, 2023
AuthorPrae Obscura
TagsDRM Free, ebook, First-Person, Horror, LGBTQIA, novel, Queer, Sci-fi, Surreal
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish

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Definitely an interesting read! I'm frankly not sure if I would say I like it, but this is definitly a story that will stick to me for a long time. It reminded me a lot of Pathologic in its vibe. Themes aside, the prose fucks mad tits (it's a compliment) and the nonlinear structure was masterfully used. Ten out of ten, you guys need to give this one a shot.