Follow a Serialized Cyberpunk Samurai Saga…
A RONIN CYBORG with a secret,
a CORPORATE SAMURAI torn between duty and desire,
& a MINING CLONE from Titan,
will shape a troubled nation’s future.
SYNOPSIS
Visage is an adult sci-fi cyberpunk samurai tetralogy. Think Shogun x Ghost in the Shell with the scope of The Green Bones Saga by Fonda Lee.
In a futuristic feudal Japan, a top swordsman-turned-ronin uncovers a plot igniting corporate warfare among the nation’s leading technological territories. Akira will wield his sword once more to prevent the creation of others like him: Chimeras, or those with neural implants merged with another’s memories.
Meanwhile, Jin, a corporate samurai must choose between rising to leadership or following his desires, & Ryoko, a retired mining clone from Titan, arrives in Japan on a secret mission.
The trio will ally, clash, and shape the conflict between the island nation wrought by political strife, its interplanetary export colonies seeking independence, and the malevolent oceanic AI threatening to destroy humanity in a struggle for freedom, power, and love.
ABOUT VISAGE
In 2017, I was lost in my career and personal creative voice. Living in NYC, having completed my MFA in Fine Art, I felt burned out by the strenuous practice of pleasing my professors and cohort, while disoriented by current events and our fracturing society.
I turned inwards. I began reading and researching widely.
I wanted to be a kid again and remembered an old novel idea from high school.
I got to work and began writing this cyberpunk samurai story.
Visage is both my indulgence in adolescent influences such as Toonami, and my personal creative sandbox to explore the beauty and terror of this world that feels as though we are being left behind second by second.
As a multiracial Japanese-American, this story is a fantasy of an alternative land and time. It’s a hybridized place meant to feel like home to those of us from the Diaspora.
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