Genre: Sci Fi / Cyberpunk
Written by J. Ishiro Finney
Cover Art by J. Ishiro Finney
Released September 18, 2021
After two years of living homeless, the Grid has lost all interest in me. To them, I’m just another castoff. A blank. Human waste. Another unwanted byproduct of this modern, civilized world. This city is famous for its population of forgotten and unwanted. These rags I wear, this filth on my skin, the cruel hunger that’s so evident in my sunken, boney face—these things grant me untold freedom to walk among the enemy. Poverty has made me a ghost. Invisible. Never once has National Surveillance Grid suspected that I am the culmination of more than half a century of black budget projects and forbidden research. Born of two mothers and twenty-seven fathers, my family tree is a string of recombinant DNA where the chromosomes of soldiers and saints share nucleotides with the genes of criminals and politicians. I am a Brother. A ten-year-old man who was perfected in a lab, born from a whore, and raised to be mankind’s redeemer.
And today I will die.
Tabula Rasa is a terrifyingly poetic dystopian tale about when bio-terrorism becomes the “final solution” to solving the so-called “intersectional problems” of race, class, and gender.