Sleeper: A CyberPunk ProgressiveLit Rags to Riches Story

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Description

Sleeper will return! I thought it wouldn't but I have a ton of ideas piling up. Not sure when, but Sleeper will return for action. And it will be new and updated.

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This series is above all A E S T H E T I C

Plenty ofslice of life, tons ofaction, crime, genetic alteration, body mods, and hot rods.

This story takes place in the far future, just before the turn of the twenty fourth century. Civilization has progressed into the stars, but regressed in both civility and human rights. Massive cities sprawl across the continents, war ravaged wastelands stretch between them, and sun scorched deserts line their outer borders. Towering buildings shadow city blocks and the sprawl digs deep underground. A young man struggles in the neon haze, trying his best to survive in this new, dangerous, and strange world.

It's a cyberpunk story, through and through, tackling topics of humanism, industry, technology and what it means to be alive. There isn't an over arching plot or a villain to defeat. It's just a simple sci-fi story about a man in a new and unforgiving world doing his best to make it better.

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Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2025
Author: RROldPage

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 64
Views: 13,611

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Community Reviews(3)

3R1K4Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story is as Cyberpunk as it gets. I was impressed at the very first chapter, but I wanted to read a bit more before writing a review. It just keeps getting better and better. Raw, dark, fun. Real Cyberpunk. The characters are so interesting too. The writing style is so captivating, it feels like I can smell the scenes myself. What a beauty.
Good news is, I'm only on Chapter 5. Bad news is, I'll have read all of it by tomorrow for sure. Please write more!
Broken BladeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Grammar: no mistakes that impact reading, if any exist they aren’t too noticeable
Style: the author has such an interesting writing style, it feels like the story is growling at me. Like I just walked into a tavern and sat at a corner table where a guy in dark robes is playing with a knife, talking about how the world is going to burn.
Characters: rabid dogs, sewer rats, gouged eyes. The characters make me feel paranoid, I suck at remembering names so having memorable characters is important for me, and boy does the story deliver. We got the drug addict MC who wants to leave, the sleazy friend with a deathwish and identity crisis, the gang guy with bikes, etc
Story: Bit early but I genuinely feel the stress that the MC is going through, I feel like I’m going to be shanked right alongside him. It's like a constant adrenaline rush to just run, a perpetual frantic energy where every moment of peace feels fake or temporary. The story does two things many other seems to forget: 1. have a clear goal inherently valuable to the character that can’t be changed without fundamentally changing who the character is, and 2. have moments of introspection where we see how the character has changed and grown, along with exploring relations between them and aspects of the world or other people
Overall: I'm addicted, someone send me to a rehab.
just add wolframiteRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Cyberpunk lives for the gritty, the depressing, for the kicking-kittens-because-they-hit-you-in-the-feels level sociopathy of a broken world let to rot. This story's introduction is a masterclass in kicking kittens.
This is not a TV action-drama screenwrite. The world is gone to shit, and you feel it, because Dreamer feels it, with all 5 of his addled senses, and despite living at the bottom, he hasn't lost his humanity.
More than any street goon or suit, the greatest villain in the world is the world. Even in their greatest power-fantasy triumphs, the tragedy of the plucky street kid is that even in the heights of their success, they have lost parts of themselves to the system. To beat the other man at cards, one has to play by the rules, and cyberpunk's rules allow the mlst despicable acts, even callously encouraging it. I expexted Mackie to be the copy-pasted rough-and-tumble, lovable sidekick we have at home, but I was wrong, and I couldn't be happier. It feels like Mackie is a direct refutation of the power fantasy hyperviolence that too many cyberpunks lean into. They're perfect in that they are the maximal victim of the setting, a long paragraph of caution to Dreamer. To say more would be (albeit minor) spoilers, so I must encourage you to read it for yourself.