Jonas Gloric
Science Fiction Author
Science Fiction Author
Jonas Gloric writes science fiction that explores the intersection of human consciousness and technological evolution. His work examines the struggle between individual identity and collective efficiency, asking what remains essentially human when technology offers to optimize us out of existence.
Gloric's writing style combines the tactical precision and kinetic energy of military science fiction with the wit, accessibility, and humanistic themes of contemporary SF. His work explores the spaces between order and chaos, unity and harmony, finding drama in the choices people make when faced with systems that promise perfect solutions to human problems.
Echoes of the Hollow Star represents Gloric's response to Fritz Lang's Metropolis, transposing its themes of class struggle and technological dehumanization into an age where memory is currency and identity is a resource to be optimized. The novella asks not whether technology will change us, but whether we will remain human while it does.
Gloric's fiction balances multiple influences from the science fiction tradition:
"This story began as a conversation with Metropolis—not an adaptation, but a response. What would Lang's themes look like in an age where consciousness itself has become industrialized? Where memory is currency and identity is a resource to be optimized?
The answer, I hope, lies in the space between unity and harmony. Unity requires conformity. Harmony celebrates difference. One is the sound of a single voice amplified to drown out all others. The other is the sound of ten billion voices choosing to sing together."
The novella grew from extensive research into consciousness studies, neural networks, and the historical parallels between industrial and digital revolutions. Gloric was particularly interested in how memory and identity function as both personal and political constructs—how the stories we tell ourselves about who we are become the battlegrounds for social control.
"Science fiction," Gloric has written, "is not about predicting the future. It's about understanding the present through the lens of possibility. We write about tomorrow to make sense of today, and in doing so, we might just help shape both."
His work consistently explores the tension between efficiency and humanity, asking whether technological solutions to human problems inevitably become problems themselves. Through characters who must choose between comfort and consciousness, security and struggle, his stories examine what makes us human when being human is optional.
"The Ring still turns. The echoes still whisper. And somewhere in the dark between stars, new voices are learning that the hardest choice—and the most important one—is the choice to choose."
— Jonas Gloric, from the author's note to Echoes of the Hollow Star
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