I thought of Jeff Noon in particular for this because the premise reminded me of a story he wrote for Somniscope involving the main character's many faces.
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Faculty of Matter is set exactly here; a world where the image came first and the truth had to fight to catch up. The lie doesn't need to win. It just needs to slow the truth down enough. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
n Faculty of Matter the NESTs don't need to invent the crisis; they just need to own the announcement. Urgency without verification is just another word for compliance. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
In Faculty of Matter the Encoding is marketed exactly this way; optimised for short-term compliance, not long-term human agency. The covenant always looked like help. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
In Faculty of Matter the Encoding is marketed exactly this way; optimised for short-term compliance, not long-term human agency. The covenant always looked like help. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
The world broke before it fell. Not all at once. Not clean. Humanity didn't need a warning. It needed to have been paying attention. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
He let the rain hit his face and tried not to think about how thin the line had become between witness and thief. He needed the truth. He needed her. He wasn't sure anymore which need scared him more. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
People did not want the truth most of the time. They wanted the version that let the next day happen cleanly. A film over the lens is easier than what's behind it. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
"You don't get to love me like I'm somewhere to hide." #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The world broke before it fell. Not all at once. Not clean. Like a film peeling back from something that had always been underneath. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The Dream Tower always greeted him the same way: rain on rock, and the sound of it — patient, steady, honest. Jay could turn it off if he wanted to. He almost never did. #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The Dream Tower always greeted him the same way: rain on rock, and the sound of it — patient, steady, honest. Jay could turn it off if he wanted to. He almost never did. #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The world in Faculty of Matter looks exactly like this; not apocalypse, just normalised scarcity. The love story happens inside that. Not despite the collapse, because of it. Extinction pressure clarifies what actually matters. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
The pattern in Faculty of Matter is exactly this; technology marketed as salvation, adopted before the contract terms were read. The covenant always looked voluntary. #dreampunk #AIethics
Jay's parents didn't build the Covenant to be original. They built it because no one else would. Non-annihilation; the only rule left standing, once every other had been used to make the lie feel inevitable. #WIPSnips #sciencefiction #dreampunk
This hits differently when you're writing a novel about exactly this — the real world falling apart while the dream layer becomes the only place left to fight for meaning. It's all one journey. @cliffjones.bsky.social just posted a Covenant thread today on that idea if you're curious 🧵 #dreampunk
Jeff Noon was writing #dreampunk before we called it dreampunk. 🪶🤯
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Scott Lawlor - To Wander a Starlit Cavern
COMING FRIDAY
#Ambient #Slushwave #Dreampunk
White Noise film tribute (Lurid Atmosphere remixes) /// free dl from 3 links:
- humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/album/white-...
- freemusicarchive.org/music/Humanf...
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/// #vapornoise #experimental #dreampunk #hauntedhouse #darkambient #freemusic #vaporwave #drone #evp
Hanging Lantern V - OUT NOW
Dreampunk / Ghost Tech mix.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAUH...
#techno #ghosttech #dreampunk
Right on, Paul! I found some community with fans of Philip K. Dick, and I've also built some community around #dreampunk, a genre that overlaps with trippy SF and horror.
The only problem is I have to travel across the country to actually hang out with these folks. I'm in the Houston area. Lonely.
Another video of my live performance from last week.
Passion - Sermon of Hope mixed into Hollowpulse - Somnia
#techno #ghosttech #dreampunk #edm #dancemusic #djs
Number one, baby! #fiction #books #booksky #sf #sff #sffh #scifi #scienceFiction #weirdFiction #horror #dreampunk #speculativeFiction #shortFiction #shortStories
Please read my #dreampunk novella DRECK.
cliffjonesjr.com/dreck
@jeffnoon.bsky.social called it "A brilliant exploration of technology’s strange new borderlands." And that guy knows genre-blending creepiness! (Vurt, anyone?)
#HorrorWritersChat
@dreampunknews.bsky.social As @cliffjones.bsky.social knows I’ve been working on a couple of #dreampunk novels for quite a while = (too long) I’m building a willing test reader group. Faculty Of Matter is nearly ready. Cliff yes, would love to catch up VSV your other post!
Hey, this sounds like what I write! "Weird" is a good descriptor, but I don't know how well it really fits with weird fiction as a genre.
I've identified enough dream-related material in most of my work that #dreampunk fits well as a genre label. For now, at least.
song: crushed (i need u) by ceecide #skylight #vaporwave #dreampunk #bladerunner #cyberpunk
