Man stands alone in the sun. It represents something.
Utopian Massacres is a 2018 dystopian novella by Asi Hart.
It's the post-scarcity future. The Government takes care of everything and everyone. According to police records, there is almost no crime.
Society is split by economic caste, workers live in one part of the city, while government bureaucrats live in another. Gangs roam the city blocks and sub-humans take every opportunity to invade people's apartments to drive them out.
When Rob Botnic's family is killed by thugs, he knows that calling the police will accomplish less than nothing. At the bar he meets a guy who tells him to take care of the matter himself.
Tropes in this novella include:
- Arms Dealer: Andel Pomsty helps Rob print some firearms.
- Chase Scene: a foot-chase on roof-tops, underground, in a train.
- Design Student's Orgasm the cover looks very strange,
◊ the physical copy is similar, has the same image, but smaller font and looks even more reminiscent of a Prog-Rock album.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Several chavs get burned alive.
- The Government: The government has unwittingly created a very bad situation for the lower class. The very existance of the chavs is their fault.
- Meaningful Name: Rob Botnic means worker in Russian.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Rob brings the pain to everybody he can think of blaming for his family's death.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Only the government and people who never meet or see them in person regard the chavs as humans. They look human, and legally they are, but everybody treats them as varmints.
