Synopsis
‘Ghostified City’ is a post-dystopian sci-fi tale, set in a fading world that might be a future version of ours, running out on autopilot into oblivion. Adaman Yimmand is a simple robofactory operator in The City who's working with robots and machines every day. He doesn’t even realise that he might not have met another actual human being in years. Everything begins when he breaks his routine for once and enters a bar where he meets Evelith. This pesky other person does not let him go after he has had his -rather terrible- beer, because according to her actual humans are much rarer than he’s aware of. And from then on ‘the genie is out of the bottle and won’t get back in’, to use her words: Adaman meets more people, and gradually he has no choice but to accept that the reality of The City is not what he always thought it was, and to face the darkness of a fading humanity on the brink of self-inflicted extinction.Is there any hope left for him, and for his species?
I have selected 'sexual content' and 'traumatising content' to be on the safe side, because there is a stripclub-like venue in the background of the story, and an almost-extinct humanity that has institutionalised suicide which might be disturbing to some. Apart from that it's not really a heavy 'adult' story.('Ghostified City' is my first long story in English as opposed to my native language Dutch, and an earlier version was published on my fiction blog 'Oranderra' until I stopped updating. This is a slightly altered version of the first series.)
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Table of Contents
- 11.1 Grey City Streets2024-11-13
- 21.2 Nirvana Ecstasy2024-11-13
- 31.3 Fake Beer and Ancient Music2024-11-13
- 41.4 Meeting an Actual Human at last2024-11-13
- 51.5 Evelith2024-11-13
- 61.6 the Complications of dealing with Real People2024-11-13
- 71.7 Too much for my poor Robobrain2024-11-13
- 81.8 A Disposable Man2024-11-13
- 91.9 You'll stay here tonight!2024-11-13
- 101.10 Dream sequence #12024-11-13
- 11Extra #1: Historical Notes on The City2024-11-13
- 12Extra #2: Character descriptions (version 1.0)2024-11-13
- 132.1 The Morning After2024-11-13
- 142.2 A Real Man is hard to find!2024-11-13
- 152.3 Velia's Mint Tea from Actual Plants2024-11-13
- 162.4 Make money or Die Trying2024-11-13
- 172.5 Beer and Bread is what made Enkidu a Human2024-11-13
- 182.6 One more Boring Day of Useless Work2024-11-13
- 192.7 'My Glasses!'2024-11-13
- 202.8 What are the Plans exactly?2024-11-13
- 212.9 How do Humans say No again (to a mad mission)?2024-11-13
- 222.10 The Temple of Acosmia2024-11-13
- 232.11 The Artificial Monk2024-11-13
- 242.12 The Last Sacraments for a Temple of Death2024-11-13
- 252.13 Next-SystenZ2024-11-13
- 262.14 Anticonception and human extinction2024-11-13
- 272.15 dreams and other worlds2024-11-13
- 282.16 dream Sequence #22024-11-13
- 29Extra #3: some notes on philosophy and religion in The City2024-11-13
- 303.1 Moving to Nirvana Ecstasy2024-11-13
- 313.2 Another Day in the Life in the Endtimes of your Species2024-11-13
- 323.3 The almost empty Squat2024-11-13
- 333.4 The story of the child2024-11-13
- 343.5 Vitlon means Life2024-11-13
- 353.6 Lonesome George's lonely hearts club band2024-11-13
- 363.7 A Supermarket well past Expiry Date2024-11-13
- 373.8 Everyday Killerbots on the Way Home2024-11-13
- 383.9 Ancient Emoji Pasta2024-11-13
- 393.10 More Real Beer at the One Night Stand Bar2024-11-13
- 403.11 Vezlena and Mr. asexual roboman2024-11-13
- 413.12 Blues for the Last Generation2024-11-13
- 423.13 Dream Sequence #3 part 1: the Council of Endlings2024-11-13
- 433.14 Dream Sequence #3 part 2: Sister Nature2024-11-13