For those who are not familiar, allow me to explain what Nexus Alpha and its books are about
Nexus Alpha 1, 2 and 3 are three parts of an erotic sci fi novel about mech warfare where sex is used to improve combat efficiency.
It’s also a story about a trans woman who struggles to figure out who she is when all she is told she is good for is sex and violence.
It constantly exists on those two layers. On the one hand it is a horny sci-fi romp with elements of mechsploitation (though very light on the mindbreak/bad end/empty spaces content).
On the other it’s a conversation with the tendency of trans women to exist at and for the pleasure of others.
It's also, crucially, a love story. It's about a woman who loves women so much it makes her look stupid. In fact, the whole trilogy contains only a single man, and he shows up only in the very last chapter. This one is about women, in the most lesbian way possible. There are other books in my catalog that appreciate men and more explicitly nonbinary folks, but not all books can be about all things and this one is about womanhood.
It's also a little bit about the Jewish golem.
If Nexus Alpha is about sex and violence then TEETH is about rage.
It's about a dying woman who is turned, against her will, into something terrifying, something monstrous, by a man who wants nothing more than to live vicariously through her. It's about hunger.
CWs for gore and body horror. It made one friend realize they were into feral play. It is statistically likely to make you Worse.
Nobody's Hound, by contrast, is a prequel. It's a military tragedy about someone who is pressured further and further into their performance until they unmake themselves.
This one is also about trans women. Its about the parts of ourselves we are willing to carve off in pursuit of perfection in the full understanding that without perfection we do not have value. We exist only as long as we exist perfectly.
But it's also about the fact that HR will only ever have the company's interests at heart and you can't trust them.
It's also about love. I do that a lot. I like love. It's important.
Finally, O Wretch is a short story and a prequel to all three of the above, giving you a little bit of that Prometheus opening sequence that shows you how everything has been set in motion a thousand years ago.
It's body horror. It's not a fun romp. This one's about pain. Sorry.
Nexus Alpha as a trilogy but the Nexusverse as a whole is about womanhood. About transfemininity in places but also just about the impossibly cruel things we do to ourselves when we try to find our way in systems that are at best not built for us and at worst built to abuse us.
Nexus Alpha is the horny one.
Nobody's Hound is the tragic one.
I hope you'll give them a read. This was three years of my life, and I think it was worth it.
