A Tungsten Cog (Trying to make dystopian sci-fi)

This is probably the most straightforward cover I've ever had to draw. I mean, it's literally the title. It felt a bit like a cover I once saw of "Mice and Men" that depicted a mice-maze. It's supposed to represent mankind trapped in a meaningless life serving technology under the illusion of advancement, which is the topic of the story, once again pretty straightforward. 



If you asked me a few weeks ago, "William, do you see yourself making a sci-fi short story exclusively for an anarchist magazine?" I'd probably have answered something like:

"Anarchists still exist?"
So, apparently, they do. Sort of, now they're having a bit of an identity crisis and think themself leftists. I've read through some of the magazine, and the first story was really under the nose with some clown society having mandatory clown legislations, I didn't like it very much, and the other two I read I'm still struggling to see how are they related to anarchism

Now, in the six months or so I searched for political alligance (unsucessfully may I add) I saw anarchists as a type of idealists who think that a society of individuals can exist without any form of hierarchy, thus further amplifying the importance of the individual. 

I tried to convey this, politics aside, and got this brave new world/Fahrenheit 451 Orwellian mish-mash. Not my favorite, but, you know. Kinda cool. Warning: animals die. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gk98Nkrlr7-FHeoSUFgj6ebSGcKniIAe/view?usp=sharing


 

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