Calmarendi

Isekai

Wikipedia tells us that

Isekai (literal translation: "different world" or "otherworld") is a Japanese genre of light novels, manga, anime and video games that revolve around a person who is transported to and has to survive in another world, such as a fantasy world, virtual world, planet or parallel universe. This plot device allows the audience to learn about the new world at the same pace as the protagonist.

Visions in Blue (Part I) is just such a story; Calmarendi is that world.  

Science Fantasy

Be in no doubt that at its core this is a science fiction story: a robot novel with a robot as one of its protagonists. However some speculative elements, particularly in Part I of the novel, do veer more into the realms of fantasy, such as the fae and the unicorns.  

Steampunk

It isn’t a steampunk novel as such but the main conceit of Part I is that our protagonists find themselves in a society stuck in an age of steam powered engineering and technology.  

18+/NSFW

We do not want Visions in Blue to be defined as an "adult" work but:

• it does not shy away from the fact that our characters have sexual desires nor from depicting their attempts at fulfilling those desires;
• it does depict graphic violence;
• it does have characters who, both in dialogue and first-person narration, use profanity to express themselves;
• it does have characters with some pretty awful attitudes and opinions.

 

Political/Alternative History

Part II of the novel and the containing narrative of Part I are grounded firmly in the political, technological and physical realities of 1992. Thereafter, it becomes a political what if story – with echoes of the isekai and elements of the science fantasy of Part I driving the divergence of the timelines. But that’s Part II – nothing to do with Calmarendi.