Harvesting Game
A Solarpunk Afrofuturist Speculative novel
The intersection of ancestral resistance and digital revolution holds a new path to liberation.
High in the shadows of an ancient volcano, trapped between peak and poisoned sea, the last Kuroban maroons face erasure. Their shanty town drowns in the refuse of the sprawling technotropolis below—a gleaming monument to Luxite supremacy that devours everything in its path. After centuries of bondage and cultural erosion, their final challenge isn’t just survival, but complete annihilation.
For one 29-year-old Kuroban, living in the old village means bearing the weight of generations. Their software testing job offers just enough comfort to stay quiet, while their mother demands compliance with traditions that barely keep their people alive. But when impossible ideas spark a desperate soul, when the courage to break every rule becomes the only path forward—what choice remains?
Armed with calculated cunning and a vision of video games as engines of liberation—despite never having played one—they’re about to challenge everything: cultural enforcement, community expectations, and the very boundaries of what a Kuroban can dare to become.
Their journey connects Solarpunk determination with Afrofuturist possibility, shifting the boundaries of what liberation can mean in a world determined to shun, separate, and consume.
Releases July 29, 2025
About Harvesting Game
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Pages: 340
ISBN Paperback: 978-1-952969-34-8
ISBN Ebook: 978-1-952969-35-5
Release Date: July 29, 2025

About Maxime Paul
Maxime wasn’t always an avid reader, but he always loved experimental, emotional, and energetic storytelling. He grew up watching, discussing, deciphering, reimagining, and reenacting shows (lots of Discovery Channel and Anime), movies (Thrillers, Comedies, and Sci-Fi), video games (RPGs and every Sport), and a plethora of music. Those stories and the ones my family and I spun with each other around the house built fanciful worlds in his mind, critiques of this world, and further shaped his storytelling. This was much before he found the arena of literature that unlocked deeper chambers of his soul. That unlocking only began after he graduated college.
Now, as an engineer, serial social impact startup founder, and consistent boundary pusher passionate about building prefigurative platforms he has the words to understand himself and is ever closer to clarifying his full impact. In his writing he taps into his Black and Indian, US-Caribbean background. He has moved to all corners of the US and lived with all types of communities, listening and breaking bread along the way. He enjoys spending time with his partner and two young children, discovering and channeling music, all things soccer, riding his bike around town, and living out liberation more everyday.