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horrorscape en · NOUN

Etymology

From horror + -scape.

Meanings

  1. A horrific landscape.
    • The city with the good fruit and the good bread has been turned into a stateless cyberpunk horrorscape, the bad dream of modernity, a zone of continually expanding human biomass, but where all the infrastructure that makes modern cities inhabitable has been bombed flat, so the streets are periodically flooded with raw sewage. 2023 October 15, Sam Kriss, “Bread, Figs, Phosphorus”, in Numb at the Lodge, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2023:

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