#killboy-novel

KILLBOY

LAUNCHING JULY 24th 2026

UPDATES WEEKLY

A SCIENCE FICTION MECHA WEBNOVEL EVENT

<<GENDER IS WAR>>

<<GRIEF IS FUEL>>

<<HISTORY IS COST>>

<<WHAT WILL YOU BURN?>>

<<WHAT WILL YOU BURN FOR?>>

TOXIC DOOMED YURI

MECHFUCKING ALTERCEST

MARXISM-LENINISM

REVOLUTIONARY WAR FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE EARTH

LOTS OF CRYING

COME FOR THE YURI

STAY FOR THE HISTORICAL MATERIALISM

KILLBOY is a science fiction mecha novel wherein the Unified Continent of Freedom (Future USA) is at war with the People's Republics of Asia, a coalition of socialist republics in Asia. The UCF has managed to invent a technology known as the Egregore Engine, a device which allows people to harvest human grief as a fuel source that has an energy output of 10,000x carbon fuel per ml. Further, the UCF operates under a different gender binary, wherein civilians are always included in the gender-caste of Woman, and soldiers and the bourgeois elite are the only ones allowed inclusion in the class of Man, or among the "count of Mankind." The story follows the main character, Flechette Jaydamn, an ace pilot of the UCF, a closeted "sync-fail," a woman in the military, on her journey towards political consciousness and eventual defection to the PRA side, at immense personal cost. The book opens with the MC being forced to kill her defecting best friend on orders, who leaves behind for her a series of video diaries which provoke her political awakening. The book is uncompromisingly Marxist-Leninist in its convictions, and is structured with epigraphs pulled from diegetic documents that communicate the nature of the world Flechette occupies. It deals with themes of colonialism, imperialism, the comprador, historical materialism, and the necessary consequences of fighting a revolutionary war for global liberation, as well as structural transphobia (sort of) and misogyny (explicit).

A rapid-fire of little teasers

Every chapter title is a real syscall, UNIX command, networking concept, or terminal output, which thematically summarizes the chapter it titles.

The UCF is an explicitly theocratic fascist empire, which names all of its mechs things like "the TEN RIGHTEOUS IN SODOM" or "the RESURRECTION". The mechs themselves are collectively referred to as "THRONES"

There is toxic doomed yuri

There is mechfucking altercest

There is a lot of crying

One of the Act opening texts is a fictional white paper written by the PRA in the early days of the war, laying out a radical new energy policy, necessary to develop the Base sufficiently to contest the mechanical efficacy of the Egregore Engine

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