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The History of Science Fiction: A Graphic Novel Adventure
Graphic Novel - Sci-Fi
Trace the progress of SF through modern times and learn why key figures and inventors like Thomas Edison and Elon Musk have looked to Sci-Fi to predict the future. For the first time in illustrated form, this comprehensive history of Sci-Fi traces its origins and charts its history from its beginnings as a “schlock” genre to its respected status today. Who is considered the world’s first science fiction author? How did American science fiction begin? What sci-fi novel is the all-time best-seller? Discover the origins of your favorite page-to-screen Sci-Fi movies. Find out why Sci-Fi so effortlessly captures our imaginations and makes us dream of new worlds. The answers are here, along with detailed chapters dedicated to the founders of the genre and their modern-day successors.
The Protopias Collection
Graphic Novel - Sci-Fi
Welcome to The Protopias Collection, the new science-fiction anthology series from AWA and Futurific Studios that explores the infinite possible futures that can come to pass
if only we make the right choices. Featuring forewords to each story—by Andrew Yang, Darren Aronofsky, Reid Hoffman, and more—as well as supplemental content that further explores the real-life futures that inspired these six unique stories collected in this edition.
Project ARKA
Graphic Novel - Sci-Fi
In the not-too-distant future, the planet Earth has been destroyed, its orbit withering and its citizens desperate to escape to the stars. The solution? The Arka, massive vessels bound for the distant promised land of Leonis. When the passengers of Arka III awaken from their long intergalactic journey, they realize they’re not in Leonis. Not only that, their journey has taken much longer than the planned two hundred years, and has landed them in a starless, seemingly endless place. Eric Rives, the ship’s second-in-command, and his partner Jia Tang are sent on an exploratory mission to investigate the dark labyrinth that surrounds them… but what they find is beyond belief.
Fight for the Factory
WebComic - Drama
Nearing a year after the grand tour of Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory, a threatening note appears in the factory’s boardroom, implying danger to the factory from an unknown source. With little other options due to Wonka’s rule of outsiders within the factory, Charlie is forced to ask for help from the only other familiar faces he knows: the rest of the Golden Ticket winners.
Equipped with Wonka Weapons, strange special abilities, and wild personalities, the kids have agreed to fight at Charlie’s side to help him defend the factory…if he can keep them in line!
Entanglement (The Protopias Collection)
Comic - Sci-Fi
Welcome to Protopias, the new science-fiction anthology series from AWA and Futurific Studios that explores the many possible futures that can come to pass as we try to make the right choices in imperfect realities.
Austin, TX. 2075. When a breakthrough in “botany tech” ushers in a new business boom centered around hyper-efficient energy production, two companies race to unlock the full potential of the technology in this story of corporate espionage, sibling rivalry, and merciless betrayal.
First Person Revocation
Graphic Novel - Sci-Fi
‘Eros’ is an origins comic for Evangelina, the protagonist in Volume 1 of ‘First Person Revocation.’
Eros offers it’s clients sexual services that utillise Inter-Corporeal Shift (ICS) tech, a temporary means of consciousness transference. Evangelina is a bio-enhanced sex worker employed by Eros to supply the partners utilised by its clients.
Li Palmer was an Eros ICS client, enthusiasm undimmed by ICS newly conferred illegality and safety concerns. The pain and regret of his ebbing life prompted his desire to use ICS to jack another, younger, life.
On her first job at Eros Evangelina finds herself on a collision course with Palmer’s desires and it will take all her wits and good fortune to avoid her becoming a casualty in the quiet war waged by wealth against death.
Gaya (The Protopias Collection)
Comic - Sci-Fi
Welcome to Protopias, the new science-fiction anthology series from AWA and Futurific Studios that explores the many possible futures that can come to pass as we try to make the right choices in imperfect realities.
When maverick biochemist Dr. Gayatri Jones' groundbreaking research into fungal networks inadvertently grants her extraordinary powers to tap into nature, she transforms into a force of vengeance against humanity’s exploitation of the planet. As her methods escalate, it’s up to her family to lead her down a path toward redemption and hope before it’s too late.
The Synthetics
Comic - Sci-Fi
The Synthetics tells stories of robotic life. It is set in the same universe as Martian Comics.
Aggie (The Protopias Collection)
Comic - Sci-Fi
Welcome to Protopias, the new science-fiction anthology series from AWA and Futurific Studios that explores the many possible futures that can come to pass as we try to make the right choices in imperfect realities. AGGIE, or the “Aggregated Human Experience Database” is an experiential technology that has come to dominate life in the near future. The ubiquitous technology allows one to live life through someone else’s eyes. For most, that means a celebrity, an influencer, or an athlete. But when Aggie’s A.I. achieves sentience, it randomly matches its users with people that progress has left behind showing them the world through new eyes. Will this lead to widespread rejection of popular tech? Or awaken something new in society and people leading companies who shape our lives?