However, taken as a whole, the loosely connected stories form a future history of our world, from the relatively near 2038 through to 2193, with most of the action happening in the 2090s. Napper’s stories happen in the aftermath of trauma, focusing on the down and outs, those left behind by a society shaped increasingly by automation and algorithm that cares little for human life or dignity. The stories taken individually are powerful and evocative works of cyberpunk noir, with Napper showing a deft and charismatic deployment of tropes and ideas developed from William Gibson and Philip K. Napper’s debut short story collection Neon Leviathan (2020) is an impressive debut. Our desires, choices, even our memories, poured into the moulds they inscribe.” Our internal spaces are being colonised, as well. Our external world was colonised centuries ago, given over to the oligarchs. “We can only exist in the places they’ve forgotten.
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