{"id":6470,"date":"2021-10-30T12:44:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T04:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benjamincheah.com\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2021-10-30T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T04:44:45","slug":"on-the-publication-of-babylon-red-and-the-triumph-of-absurdity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitsuncheah.com\/?p=6470","title":{"rendered":"On the Publication of Babylon Red, and, the Triumph of Absurdity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Previously<\/a>, I described my struggles to verify that I own the copyright to Babylon Red. In the face of such Kafkaesque insanity, I reasoned that ordinary logic would be insufficient to penetrate the silicon shell of the KDP Content Review Team. My only recourse was absurdity on a scale to overmatch what I have encountered. Thus, immediately after writing the post, I sent an email to Amazon with the link the blog post\u00a0and described the events of the saga to date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the exchange:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For two weeks I have asked Amazon what documents they needed. For two weeks I have been steadfastly ignored. Nonetheless, I asked again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No apology. No explanation. Just another script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was everything I have come to expect of Amazon. Bounded by the limits of templates and scripts, none of their representatives could say anything more. Serving as the interchangeable speakers of a digital behemoth, animated by mere electricity and elevated to an existence less than sentience, they could not speak what the non-thinking machine did not give them leave to speak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonetheless, at such immense cost of time, energy, not to mention sanity, I have obtained a victory for rationality through ridiculousness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a crazy world we live in.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exiting this labyrinth of absurdity, I am now obliged to pitch you my work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The New Gods have won.

Or so they thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dark gods and horrific monsters wage a shadow war to dominate the planet. Only the Special Tasks Section could keep them from tearing the world apart. And now, they have been disbanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for the disgraced operators of Team Black Watch, the mission continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The odds are stacked against them. The authorities will not protect them. Their resources are limited. The New Gods have fresh horrors waiting for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worst of all, team leader Yuri Yamamoto, Christian mystic and street samurai, the only man who can stand fast against the soul-crushing powers of the New Gods, is in exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Driven underground, the men of Team Black Watch do what they can to keep the horrors at bay. But when the New Gods launch a fresh offensive, it falls to team sniper Kayla Fox to rally them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With their ace gone, Team Black Watch must find a way to resist the overwhelming power of the New Gods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of humanity depends on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Babylon Red collects five hard-hitting cyberpunk horror stories, detailing a guerilla campaign against the dark rulers of the world. Originally published as webserials, these stories have been remastered and compiled in a single volume, along with a bonus never-before-published novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome back to Nova Babylonia. Hold on to your soul. You’re going to need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Preorder Babylon Red here <\/a>on Amazon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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