Novels
Death, Incorporated
21-year-old Yorde needs to survive in an afterlife plagued by Kafkaesque bureaucracy and predatory capitalism, while racing against the clock to uncover the truth about his alleged suicide.
When Yorde, a film school dropout, wakes up dead in a shopping mall, he’s both terrified and pissed. He has no memory of how he died, but the men in black who greet him insist he committed suicide. Transported to Necropolis, the city of the dead, Yorde’s questions are dismissed, his queries are unanswered, and he is left to fend for himself, with only 24 hours to spare. If he doesn’t secure an afterlife plan before his time runs out, he will cease to exist. But Yorde opts out of a proper afterlife and stays in the city, choosing to fight back and challenge the system that wronged him.
In Necropolis, Yorde must navigate a time-driven economy: the dead earn, borrow, and spend time as currency, and if their payments are late, they vanish. Yorde must make allies and enemies alike, unraveling a conspiracy that reaches the highest floors of the afterlife. His journey critiques the harsh realities of late-stage capitalism, exploring themes of self-sustainability, systemic exploitation, and the difficult choices one must make in order to survive—and possibly even resist.
Completed.
Paranoia
Two lands stand divided. To the east, the Forgotten Wastelands, ruled by the tribes of skeletons wearing animal-skulls. To the west, a forest of bloodied limbs—the Organic Jungle, where creatures of muscle and meat devour each other.
One day, the great wall separating their lands shatters onto the ground. The worlds of flesh and bone are unleashed onto each other. A hunter from the Tribe of the Deer embarks on a dangerous mission to end the war between the two species. If he fails, the Bone-eaters will feast upon his kin.
Published by Nowy Świat. 2015.
https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/259373/paranoia
Interview:
https://krytyk.com.pl/misz-masz/wywiad-piotrem-adachem/
Song of the Unwanted
This is Kalgatha, the land of the unwanted. Tumble-guts bounce across the dunes and corpse-beetles roll their balls of rotten miasma across the wastelands. Blood soaks into the sand quickly and bone-beggars come to collect the rest.
Atop the Hills, Bird-Mother perches. She pushes her children off the nest and cackles as they splatter down below. But Nestling miraculously survives the fall… such a pity, that. Kalgatha’s miracles are always the cruel sort.
Nestling misses his Mother’s warmth, but to get back to her he first needs to learn how to fly. His wings broken, he must wander far from his home wasteland in search for flight, relying on the only survival skills he has: pestering strangers, playing dead and screaming. His squawks, though, hold a promise of a powerful song. With the help of a guitar-wielding Fish, he may just unbury its secret, and discover the key to his Mother’s madness…
Completed.