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Taiwan Slash
Speedball Books, 2026
In a rain-slicked Taipei rendered as both video game and nightmare, a vengeful avatar named ZgV hunts down "Rapehogs" — predatory men disguised as respected professionals — while a hidden bar called Taiwan Slash lures players deeper into a game that blurs the line between fiction and real violence against women. Structured as interlocking "levels," journal entries, and trauma-laced confessions, the novel fuses cyberpunk noir with feminist rage, staging its heroine's bloody catharsis against a soundtrack of Kraftwerk and the ghosts of the city's underbelly. Equal parts pulp thriller and literary provocation, it's a fever-dream reckoning with rape culture, told through the lens of a game no one can quite remember choosing to play.
Taiwan Slash
Speedball Books, 2026
In a rain-slicked Taipei rendered as both video game and nightmare, a vengeful avatar named ZgV hunts down "Rapehogs" — predatory men disguised as respected professionals — while a hidden bar called Taiwan Slash lures players deeper into a game that blurs the line between fiction and real violence against women. Structured as interlocking "levels," journal entries, and trauma-laced confessions, the novel fuses cyberpunk noir with feminist rage, staging its heroine's bloody catharsis against a soundtrack of Kraftwerk and the ghosts of the city's underbelly. Equal parts pulp thriller and literary provocation, it's a fever-dream reckoning with rape culture, told through the lens of a game no one can quite remember choosing to play.