Steelstorm - Imperium Press

by Thomas777

In the beginning, there was only Victor von Leers. In the end, there was ZARTAX-cyborg, living weapon, ultimate Executioner. After Warday, when millions of human lives ceased at once in a flash of nuclear hellfire, the lives of sadistic junkie Billy Wong, Surgeon-Minister Woldemar Mohamet al-Husseini, and Leers would be bound together by some unseen hand moving them toward God's ultimate purpose.

The debut novella of one of our foremost dissident thinkers, Steelstorm opens up terrifying vistas of Homeric violence and Venusian sky-city arcologies.

With an essay outlining the philosophical implications of fiction as well as his own reasons for writing the book, Thomas777 has given us a major creative statement and a new mythos.

Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction

87 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 18, 2021

Reviews

[Jack0 · Rating 4 out of 5]

METAL AF

Not for SNORLAXS OBSESSIN over SADIES

[/Fitbrah/ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Written by my favorite neo-nazi, SteelStorm is a real schizo book. I'm not sure I would like the book at all, if I weren't already familiar with and a huge fan of the famed Holocaust denier Thomas777. The book takes his disjointed and aggressive writing style and steps on the accelerator.

Roughly 50% of the book is plot and relevant information. The rest is quotes from other media, Thomas777 philosophizing by aping Ernst Junger (not a bad thing) and sometimes weird vignettes whose purpose to the plot is not entirely clear. Add to that the fact that the perspective changes every 3 pages (the narrative keeps jumping between 3 different timelines) and the book is a real slog to get through. Despite that, there is relatively little racist/ antisemitic content (not saying that's a good or a bad thing).

The main thing that stands out from this book and what I will be stealing indiscriminately for my own fiction, is his ability to tie loose threads together and foreshadow plot by implying an unspoken mythology. It is never quite stated but heavily implied that the characters and the events in the book form a modern pantheon of sorts. He likely perfected this ability by writing apologetics for Adolf Hitler.

Ultimately, the book is quite rough but it seems to be a good first foray into the world of fiction by a pretty eccentric writer. I will likely read some more of his books if he releases them.

[Vladivostok · Rating 5 out of 5]

Called upon by God, to inflict violence and, ultimately, to rule.

[Samuel Massey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Adorned with cool quotes that make it hard to recommend to anyone who knows me IRL, it was great.

[Fnaught · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know how to judge this properly until I read the second part. There are some simply incredible moments -the black rain scene- that benefit enormously from exposure to ideas that are basically off of the table in ordinary political discourse. But there's also an overreliance here on cool epigraphs above developed content; when I try to write, I have exactly the same issue.
Still, this is material begging for expansion. (85 pages has a lot of room to grow!)

[swampeater · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick read, really enjoyed the insane gore that Thomas777 has described and I liked the Bridgeport junkie plotline, but the language is unnecessarily flowery in most parts. If you like 70's pulp sci-fi, check it out

[Alex · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yeah, is COO.

[Ernst Aristo Meister · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Uniquem In Contemporary Times, the most prolific dissident writer of the 21st century. If you the Dig Cold War with Science Fiction this one's COO for you.

[Hank · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vi blev precis klara med våran andra genomläsning av Steelstorm som är skriven av Thomas777 och utgiven av det (i alla fall i våran mening) helt korrekt orienterade förlaget Imperium Press. Anledningen till att vi läste om denna bok är att vi nyligen fick hem bok nummer två i denna serie. Steelstorm utgör alltså den första boken i denna pågående science-fiction serie. Bok nummer ett etablerar historien, världsbygget och de centrala karaktärerna på ett kompetent sätt. Premissen är att ett kärnvapenkrig mellan USA och USSR påbörjas 1983 av en grupp mäktiga och inflytelserika män i syfte att förhindra den smärtsamt långsamma pågående civilisationella kollapsen med förhoppningen att något bättre ska resa sig ur askan.

”It called to mind the grotesque infantile customs that had eliminated philosophy and learned discourse from public and intellectual life, those symptoms of the decadence, rot and concomitant tendency towards racial suicide that had extinguished high culture and meaningful human endeavor int the decades prior to WARDAY”

Ur askan och efter WARDAY reser sig ett globalt heligt imperium – med Islam som religiös bas – som långsamt börjar kolonisera rymden. I boken följer vi främst missbrukaren och sedermera krigsherren Bui Fang Wong under tiden innan och efter WARDAY samt Victor Von Leers/ZARTAX som är en kombination av människa och maskin, i början av tretusentalet.

Thomas777 är en av den globala dissidenthögerns mest pålästa och intressanta tänkare. Med detta i åtanke är det ingen större överraskning att idéer och koncept från Oswald Spengler, Francis Parker Jockey och Julius Evola har påverkat denna bok. Författaren besitter även en rik vokabulär som möjligtvis kan göra boken lite svårläst. Vi väljer att se det på ett mer positivt sätt då det är ett utmärkt tillfälle att utöka våran kunskap om det engelska språket. Vi rekommenderar denna bok till er som är intresserade av science-fiction som utgår från ett tydligt högerperspektiv.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting first entry into the Steelstorm saga - very much looking forward to the next. Technically complex in terms of the writing style, but worth the challenge. Interesting themes including armageddon and civilisation, the fall of man and the continuance of human nature throughout the ages, the progressive ideal and the implications wrt biotech symbiosis, etc.