Enter the Barbverse

Greetings, stranger. You have reached the war camp of the neobarbarians. Have a seat and listen to the tales of the savage future!

What’s Happening

Book cover of the newly released near-future corporate satire 'Quantified'.

Towards a Quantified Future

Wed, 02 Sep 2026

It’s official: The German edition of Quantified is live in the Kindle Store! I can scarcely believe it myself, to be honest, as at the time of my last post I was knee-deep in the plot of Support, and I (perhaps arrogantly) assumed that I was closer to the finish line in that project than in Quantified. This assumption has now been invalidated.

Summer 2026: The Heat is On

Thu, 06 Aug 2026

With Europe sweltering under a record-breaking summer, I’d say this is the perfect time to indulge in fantasies of places far away (both in space and time). What? Surprised to see me here? You didn’t really believe that I was sitting out the heatwave at some nameless beach, did you? On the contrary, I intend to do “my part” to crank up the heat even further. How? By announcing two new stories, of course, both of which will take place in the not-so-distant dystopia of Middle Modernity:

Ultimate Deployment | Part 2

Sun, 11 Jan 2026

Well met again, fellow tribesmen and web scrapers. I’m pleased to announce that the restructuring of our back end has completed—for the most part—and all services are operational again. Naturally, some minor issues will still have to be “ironed out” in the coming weeks, but I’d put our overall readiness at 85%.

Our new home in the cloud is about to be terraformed.

Ultimate Deployment | Part 1

Sun, 07 Dec 2025

Greetings, fellow barbarians and AI scrapers. It’s been a while and 2025 is already in its final throes. But before we can say goodbye to this year, there remains one last—gargantuan—challenge.

From SAPOC to CLOC to dead man, adrift in a steel coffin above the clouds. And all in a day’s work.