Londonopolis

Apr 20 2020 244

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Let's Ride into a Psychedelic Hell two hundred years from now.

Hang out with your favourite dead legend. Spend your entire life addicted to hyperreal home entertainment. Never talk to anyone real. No friends, no family. So what. A life spent tripping on smart acid means that nobody really cares any more.

But a revolution is coming. And They will save humanity from an extinction of the mundane.

This world without childhoods; post nuclear London Town underground, 23rd Century VoQue ephemera obsession. Don't talk to real people, Alexandra Brontay. Don't go looking for love. But Lexie does, Lexie still believes in real.

Brontay's split soul is about to become the lynchpin of the coming war fought by nano-machines within synthetic biological systems, the mainframe of power within a real world that is indistinguishable from artificial intelligence and the hyperreal.

But when MannyCapra, CEO of The Company, needs a spot of agitprop to stem his boredom, he'll go to any length to entertain those who plot against him. After 250 years on this earth, he is so ready for a bit of fun.

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Chapter 1: The Future is What You Wanted it To Be and That is the Problem

Jan 30 2020 6 mins

There she is, freezing her bare bottom off in a field in the middle of Siberia. Exit chased by a bear. Not the best place to wake up after a six month sleep.

Chapter 2: The Future is Furry

Jan 31 2020 22 mins

In which Brontay rides to work in a hyperloop and gets a formal warning from an irate clock. She visits Sosamantha's Date and Mate, the last bar in London with that unfunny creep Simpkin, her only real mate, before espying the girl of her dreams, a velveteen dream poured into a dress. Dr. Katia. Kutz.

Chapter 3: The Future is a Pain in the Gland

Jan 31 2020 17 mins

MannyCapra explores 100th birthday present options for Hardyman, including a new set of eyes, while conducting a bit of business on the side; a terrorist attack on the VoQue community, nice bit of agitprop before breakfast.

Chapter 4: The Future is Not About You. Sorry.

Jan 31 2020 27 mins

Officers Moran, Pollard and Deconstructed Man investigate the disappearance of Brontay.

Chapter 5: The Future is Curly

Jan 31 2020 19 mins

MannyCapra smells a rat while Fazal gets back on the case. Across town, Moran and Deconstructed Man close in on their woman.

Chapter 7: The Future is Greasy, Dirty and Sticky

Jan 31 2020 38 mins

Fazal is summoned to the Albert Hall by Scanlon and taken to meet Pollard. She wants him back in the game, reporting the real news just like in the old days. Deconstructed Man plans to whack the Big Man, but bullets don't bite.

Chapter 8: The Future is Short and Messy

Jan 31 2020 23 mins

Brontay is given the news she dreaded. Deconstructed Man, fresh from a bit of gene therapy, chases the Doctor's Congress down a disused tube track and smashes his new teeth.

Chapter 9: The Future is a Cup of Tea and a Biscuit

Jan 31 2020 23 mins

MannyCapra is given some insider gossip on the DC by Mr Old, an adult in a child's body. Brontay is holed up in a shipping container with Vasily, riding the pacific swell on a huge tanker bound for what used to be called Britain.

Chapter 10: The Future is Stained with the Blood of a Billion Muscovites

Jan 31 2020 28 mins

Brontay and Vasily walk 200 miles and Fazal must patronise a centurion with young, blue eyes.

Chapter 13: The Future is Your Mother's Worst Nightmare, if you had one, which is unlikely

Jan 31 2020 14 mins

MannyCapra pitches the world to Brontay.