#1 free through 10.4.12

It remains to be seen if this serial will pick up enough traffic or comments to warrant its continuation but the serial will be free tomorrow as well as today.  (10.4.12)

Episode 1 (Ariah) released

The first segment of episode 1 has gone live!

This portion of the story follows Ariah, a mother, as she struggles to prepare her family for the rolling blackouts that take place across the city.

Ariah's storyline will be one of four that we follow throughout the course of this saga, its twists and turns partially determined by things that you, the reader, have to say about DS.

Introduction: The Forgotten Future

I love the cyberpunk genre.  There is something in me that has always clung to the idea of a post-apocalypse society and in many respects, cyberpunk is that.  Though the apocalypse is social, no cyberpunk universe can exist without having had that massive change in social perception that turns society as nihilistic as it is often portrayed.

As the future has rolled on, however, I begin to ask myself--is it that much of a change or is it simply that there's a whole world of people that the genre doesn't address?

What cyberpunk focuses on is the nihilists and the anti-heroes.  The lives of ordinary people are largely forgotten in many of the popular stories.  We follow the hackers and the assassins--parents raising their children, office workers bound to their cubicles, teachers and firemen and all of the ordinary professions we take for granted...those people are largely invisible in the adventures of this genre.  They have become the faceless, the nameless...the future that we'd prefer to forget because it's so close to the one in which we live.

Dimestore Soldiers is my attempt to tell that story in bits and pieces over the coming months.  Like you, this story will change as the world around us changes.  I hope that you'll join me for the journey.

Remember the future,
Gwen