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Trans_lucent
A collection of cyberpunk stories carving space out for Trans+ characters in near-futures ravaged by rampant capitalism, terminal environmental decline, state surveillance, poverty, and the rolling back of human rights.
Trans_lucent comprises six deeply empathetic stories exploring sex, technology, community, and what it means to be trans in a world where transhumanism has become business as usual.
Told with sharp wit, precise prose, and own voice observations, Trans_lucent goes beyond neon lights and empty aesthetic. A testament to human connection in a cold world.
Cumulative Realities
Transbians Navi and Tash run a bookshop digitally preserving comics, novels, fanzines – anything written by Trans+ folks through history. After their server’s hacked, they risk losing everything.
In Wait of Obsolescence
What does it mean to be transgender when environmental catastrophe keeps everyone sequestered forever alone in their capsules?
Progeny
Reproduction is a government interest and job roles are defined before birth. But when Alana Khoury’s progeny open fires on a biotech academy, she’s drawn into rabbit hole about what it means to be a mother.
Risingson
For cyberware blogger, advisor, and investigator Violet, meeting trans masc cyborg Calder is so much more than another job.
The Mnemosyne Cycle
Memory, self-determination, and identity in a world where memory wipes are as commonplace as the broken infrastructure and insidious state surveillance.
Venus as a T-Boy, Saturn as a Femme
Pregnant T4T couple Lacewing and Tawn smuggle themselves into England a decade after they fled. The avoid the law and get safely to Tawn’s family where the baby has a chance at life.
Trans_lucent comprises six deeply empathetic stories exploring sex, technology, community, and what it means to be trans in a world where transhumanism has become business as usual.
Told with sharp wit, precise prose, and own voice observations, Trans_lucent goes beyond neon lights and empty aesthetic. A testament to human connection in a cold world.
Cumulative Realities
Transbians Navi and Tash run a bookshop digitally preserving comics, novels, fanzines – anything written by Trans+ folks through history. After their server’s hacked, they risk losing everything.
In Wait of Obsolescence
What does it mean to be transgender when environmental catastrophe keeps everyone sequestered forever alone in their capsules?
Progeny
Reproduction is a government interest and job roles are defined before birth. But when Alana Khoury’s progeny open fires on a biotech academy, she’s drawn into rabbit hole about what it means to be a mother.
Risingson
For cyberware blogger, advisor, and investigator Violet, meeting trans masc cyborg Calder is so much more than another job.
The Mnemosyne Cycle
Memory, self-determination, and identity in a world where memory wipes are as commonplace as the broken infrastructure and insidious state surveillance.
Venus as a T-Boy, Saturn as a Femme
Pregnant T4T couple Lacewing and Tawn smuggle themselves into England a decade after they fled. The avoid the law and get safely to Tawn’s family where the baby has a chance at life.
105 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 11, 2025
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December 21, 2025
I don't expect to love every story in a collection, but I at least loved something in every story in this one. Sparx draws you into each world through their very real characters and paints a portrait of everyday life in other worlds, even if sometimes those lives are the ones the government would rather ignore or disappear.
I think most of these stories could fall into cyberpunk, but there's hints of solarpunk, more classic post-apocalypse, and a heavy dose of something entirely Sparx's that I absolutely adore.
Beautifully queer. Funny enough to make me laugh out loud. Emotional enough to make me tear up when no one was watching (shh don't tell anyone). I'm looking forward to more by this author!
I think most of these stories could fall into cyberpunk, but there's hints of solarpunk, more classic post-apocalypse, and a heavy dose of something entirely Sparx's that I absolutely adore.
Beautifully queer. Funny enough to make me laugh out loud. Emotional enough to make me tear up when no one was watching (shh don't tell anyone). I'm looking forward to more by this author!
October 13, 2025
DNF in the last story, but this is great writing for the most part, so don't let me deter you giving this collection a try. Six stories:
1 good, creative
2 very short, very melancholy
3 oof; Progeny made me read beginning to end without stopping. Compelling.
4 just... vividly kindly worrying
5 movements were so erratic I skipped it
6 had to stop reading, triggering anxiety like whoa
1 good, creative
2 very short, very melancholy
3 oof; Progeny made me read beginning to end without stopping. Compelling.
4 just... vividly kindly worrying
5 movements were so erratic I skipped it
6 had to stop reading, triggering anxiety like whoa
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