Honored samurai, ruthless ronin, wayward vagabonds, shadowy ninja and helpless villagers... welcome.
Opening Volley
It’s been about a month since my last post and for that I apologize. The course of natural human events have jumped in the driver’s seat of my life and I must relinquish the wheel for just a little longer. Well, I did say this was going to be a “light” and “relaxed” newsletter, and I meant it. There’s nothing more annoying (to me anyway) than a neverending flow of email that could be a little less self-urgent. So for the next few weeks, Samuraipunk will be revisiting some older newsletters. More than 3/4s of the current subscriber list (over 300 now) hadn’t yet discovered it when they were published, so this is a good time. Below are links to three newsletters I personally enjoyed writing. They aren’t necessarily the most popular, but rather those I think deserve more noise. Enjoy!
Main Event
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Short story “SCARRED” by rian and gritty, sexy, cyborgy, scifi illustrations by Alex Cipriano and BRiZL.
When Latex Idol Pulse Stimulation Simulation (LIPSS) gashapon become all the rage, how much will the protagonist be willing to dump into blind-box machines to fulfill his... Raspberry Dream. Short fiction set in a near-future Japan.
The far-future fiction of authors such as Alastair Reynolds and Ian M. Banks explore the what ifs of humanity and all that we can become. But is this future thousands of years off? Not so says HALLIDONTO, futurist, thinker, polymath, a contemporary visual artist/poet. Deep dive the now of creativity of transhumanism.
We never meet without parting
Next issue... Wayback 002. Digging another layer down into the past of Samuraipunk before moving forward again.
Until then!
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