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Ani Fox writes Zorropunk: Empire eating itself, guided by hands it trained but could never tame.
Shaped by classified operations and unclassified chaos: technology, geopolitics, survival. The fiction has precision because the systems had consequences; fury because they're still running. Morally complex. High-stakes. Prose that does not flinch.
Zorropunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction set in imperial or post-imperial settings, centered on anti-colonial resistance and ontological freedom. It is characterized by its focus on liminal insiders who turn empire's own systems against itself: "trained by the machine, ungovernable within it." It features protagonists who understand imperial bureaucracy, law, language, and infrastructure because they operate within these systems, yet remain fundamentally untamable to hegemonic control. These mixed-heritage translators, clerks, soldiers, and administrators weaponize procedure, meaning, and violence simultaneously to protect plural local communities and force hegemonic collapse from within. The stakes are ontological: hegemony seeks to absorb, coopt, and dominate all resistance; protagonists survive by remaining categorically unassimilable while functionally fluent. A significant portion of zorropunk traces back to borderlands literature and postcolonial fiction of the late 20th century, which explored mestizo consciousness, the violence of categorization, and resistance through strategic refusal of coherent imperial identity.
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