Great stuff, dude. Institutional cosmic horror, I love it. The bureaucratic edge was really clever and gave me strong vibes of Stefan Baciu's IN CORPORE. There's something deeply unsettling about watching an incomprehensible phenomenon get processed through company policy, containment procedures, and corporate logic rather than just sheer panic. Then, for it all to mean nothing and go to critical mass in the end anyways.
New prophet vibes? Nah this was dope though. Agree with Kerr here with the way the narrator brings everything into focus with the logistic procedures on the forefront and the borderline corpo mentality about it all. Even through death. Makes the end much more harrowing.
I don't know if you know (or like or dislike) Ian Patterson and his writers' jam calling for stories about “Elias Thorne” (as a group-spam-assault on AI), but I've written one that's in my newsletter called 2033, and I think An Explanation would be perfect if submitted—with only a name change of your main character to Elias Thorne.
To be clear, I don't mean change what you've posted here in your newsletter, I mean create an alt-universe version for inclusion in Ian's Elias list. If nothing else it would boost your reach 😅
I won't spam your comments thread with links, but do hit me or Ian up if you want more info. Cheers and, in any event, very nicely done...
Great stuff, dude. Institutional cosmic horror, I love it. The bureaucratic edge was really clever and gave me strong vibes of Stefan Baciu's IN CORPORE. There's something deeply unsettling about watching an incomprehensible phenomenon get processed through company policy, containment procedures, and corporate logic rather than just sheer panic. Then, for it all to mean nothing and go to critical mass in the end anyways.
New prophet vibes? Nah this was dope though. Agree with Kerr here with the way the narrator brings everything into focus with the logistic procedures on the forefront and the borderline corpo mentality about it all. Even through death. Makes the end much more harrowing.
I don't know if you know (or like or dislike) Ian Patterson and his writers' jam calling for stories about “Elias Thorne” (as a group-spam-assault on AI), but I've written one that's in my newsletter called 2033, and I think An Explanation would be perfect if submitted—with only a name change of your main character to Elias Thorne.
To be clear, I don't mean change what you've posted here in your newsletter, I mean create an alt-universe version for inclusion in Ian's Elias list. If nothing else it would boost your reach 😅
I won't spam your comments thread with links, but do hit me or Ian up if you want more info. Cheers and, in any event, very nicely done...