Many Minded
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Synopsis:
Issa Pyxis, Spacer orphan and illegal heretic, graduated from living on the streets to running with a gang years ago, but now it looks like that’s all going to change. Her inheritance, more specifically who—or what—she is, is catching up with her, and on a planet with the Emperor’s inquisitors slinking around in every shadow, nowhere is safe and no one can be trusted. What will she do?
A cyberpunk story about identity, loneliness, covert infiltration, evil dystopias, and much more!
Features:
- Cyborgs and cyberpunk galore
- This is indented to be somewhat “rational” and “hard” Sci-Fi story
- Original Fiction however parts of my worldbuilding are inspired by other Sci-Fi stories (duh)
Rationale:
The future is cool, AIs are kickass, and questions about consciousness are simultaneously existential and yet unanswered. To me, this story is a vehicle for exploring these topics, and also, I wanted to write a story where the protagonist was unafraid of themselves and where their self is more like a git-repo than a meat computer.
Disclaimer:
This story primarily takes place in what we’d describe as a “cyberpunk dystopia” with some extra technocracy, autocracy, and religious fervor thrown into the mix, so there will be some “grittiness” in this story. Caveat emptor.
Also, [insert your favorite boilerplate “views expressed” disclaimer here]. I shouldn’t need to say this, but the main character and other characters in my story can bewrongon occasion (gasp!) and the way they view the world isn’t always objective truth (if such a thing even exists) nor do their views and opinions necessarily reflect the views of me, the author.
Cover art by me!
[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]
Information
- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- Marmoset Threat
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- Rating
- 4.8/ 5.0
- Followers
- 72
- Views
- 6,680
Chapters(9 total)
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Community Reviews(2)
- LuCaS LIRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0I've only read the first two chapters, but they are absolutely awesome.
The author does the whole brain augmentation thing very well, and I'm digging it.
Some more points that I like about the story (totally subjective):
The characters feel fleshed out.
The main character is smart.
The plot seems like it will explore the techy stuff of the world. - Vir BrevisRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Issa Pyxis, is the mind who keeps the unruly gang of techno ruffians, the Emerald Ones, off the cop's radar, their AI's algorithms, and their money laundered. Sou rounded by high tech augmented criminals who see her as a little uppity geek how can a girl with no friends keep ahead? Well, one should always support ones self of course.
Style 5/5
Brimming with great world building, fantastic yet logically consistent tech, and a grim atmosphere the world the Marmoset Threat brings out will leave you craving more.
Story 4.5/5
As the story only consists of 6 chapters at the time of this review, and really it feels like the intro is just concluding and the real game is about to start, I will reserve the perfect score.
Grammar 5/5
No noticeable issues with spelling or Grammar, but I am far from the most observant when it comes to such things.
Character 4/5
Love the gang members, they are all appropriately selfish, illogical and brutal. Issa is great, couldn't ask for anything more in a protagonist. Her Greek Chorus have no individuality and are less characters and more tools at this point in the story, which I have absolutely no issue with. If duplicates started diverging personalities even when Issa merges regularly it wouldn't be realistic. So why the 4 stars? Why because there are no other characters. Though as I mention in Story at chapter 6 we are just moving out of the introduction phase and there should not be a huge investment in developing characters as the story moves past them I have no complaints and as such it does not affect my overall score.