iCity Tales

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Series Begun:
2025-09-04
Series Updated:
2025-09-17
Description:

A series of stories sharing the same near-future Cyberpunk-style setting. Each story can be read stand-alone, but there are subtle connections that pay off in the final story.

Notes:

Welcome to the iCity stories, a series of linked stories in the same dystopian near-future tales. I've always had a fondness for cyberpunk, and this long project may be the only chance I get to try it myself, so I went all-out. The stories are meant to be completely readable stand-alone but with a satisfying overarching plot if you read all of them. Each one also had a experimental aspect to them, either playing with some element that I don't normally find arousing and seeing if I could write a story I still found hot, or using some writing technique I'm not experienced with, or both, so even one story has something off-putting it might be worth trying others. Still, some are more extreme than my usual work, so mind the tags.

 

Some credit and acknowledgments are in order... In this case, firstly for the artist NeckRomancer, who was sort of the cause of this... we were discussing things in e-mail and a comment I said inspired a story idea that he pitched to me and graciously allowed me to use (in fact, he suggested several and some parts of some of the others might have wound up as well). Other story ideas or elements provoked, to some degree or another, by comments from kludo, Chirutai, and of course Danaume, one of my long-time collaborators. If there's anyone else, I apologize, this project has been ongoing for years. And of course, inspiration was also drawn from all the writers of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk over the years, many of who are name-checked. I imagine many would prefer not to be, but they're just names -- names chosen do not represent or reflect feelings towards actual people in any way shape or form or implying endorsement or connection. All characters and events are fictional even ones specifically naming actual people.

 

 

 

One Technical Note: Classic cyberpunk, which as I said I'm a fan of, doesn't really mesh perfectly with computers and the Internet as it exists today. So I've done a bit of a bastard fusion and used some handwaving of vague historical events that have altered how things work. So I acknowledge that some of it just isn't going to make sense (networks don't really work like that!). Don't @-me, the cheese of the slightly retro vibe is part of the fun of the genre (though I suppose it wasn't quite so retro when it was first being written).

Stats:
Words:
155,491
Works:
5
Complete:
Yes
Bookmarks:
7

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