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The novel uses real-world people and events but transforms them into fictional, composite, or surreal characters and narratives.
1 chapter across 1 book
The Infernal (2015)Mark Doten
Pages 3–30
The chapter introduces Mark Doten's 'The Infernal' as a fictionalized and surreal reimagining of real-world events and figures related to the war on terror and technological evolution, centered around a speculative post-human network called the Memex and the Cloud. It then explores a dystopian world dominated by the Wet-Grid and the Cloud, where surveillance controls the environment and imprisons souls in the New City, culminating in a chaotic apocalyptic vision that intertwines markets, technology, and mythical allegories to depict the collapse of civilization.