METANOIA [1]
A Gothic Sci-fi Noir
About
John Nakae is an engineer seeking the old promises of modernity, but the America he was born into is a crumbling castle without the allure or mystique, only the dust and a draft. With every month, another piece of his home town is lost to abuse… another person to neglect.
In that limbo, a siren song wails on the winds of gossip and in the ceaseless pattering of news feeds. The song of the last city of progress: the new City of Joule. John wanted to believe it was the “refuge for visionaries” an old college pal promised it to be, while everyone around him called it a “lawless pleasure den for the rich.”
When he finally goes to see the truth with his own eyes, he finds everything he could have hoped for: exciting work, grand luxuries, memorable adventures… Yet, for all the prosperity the city brings into his life, the “true change” he longs for remains beyond his grasp.
Until one night, that “change” grabs him in the form of a phenomenon both terrifying and glorious—one that could transform the stone heart of the world… but would sooner bleed his dry on the claws of a nightmare become flesh.
To any sensible man, no discovery could be grand enough to risk contending with such a dreadful mystery. John, however, is a proper Joulian.
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