Incel

Suicidally depressed, twenty-two year old anon has settled on a deadline: if he can't find a way to lose his virginity by the date of his next birthday, he's going to pick a fight with the biggest, baddest man he can find, and get himself killed.For anon, social alienation is a simple matter of unvarnished perspective: America in the year 2012 is a brutal Darwinian hellscape where every man is engaged in a ruthless competition for access to attractive females-and losers like him are left to rot. As he begins his first year of graduate studies in evolutionary psychology, the looming threat of his personal deadline mutates into a totalizing obsession to validate his theories and achieve sex for the first time. Convinced that he's discovered a special method for "hacking" the mating patterns in human behavior, he starts upon a path that only threatens to further destabilize his already fragile psyche, hurtling him toward a crucible of his own design. From literary newcomer ARX-Han, INCEL represents the absolute frontier in transgressive psychological fiction. Fusing the correlated shards of masculinity, shame, and hatred, it casts a singular account of a young mind's unyielding descent into the memetic spiral of online radicalization. Alternating between waves of realism and satire, INCEL flows between the interwoven ideologies of pickup artists, The Red Pill, involuntary celibates, and the alt-right-tracing a savage, devastating portrait that echoes into the near past and our imminent future.