Leopold’s Labyrinth puts the reader at the center of a story where they take shape as a recluse residing in the digitally-constructed environments of the future—the cybergothic landscape of the 2020s. It is Sunday evening and they just have begun their pilgrimage into a holy labyrinth, in the hopes that they will come upon new artifacts that radiate a simultaneously corporeal and astral aura. The reader is a miner who mines this place for its meaning. Leopold’s Labyrinth is a funhouse turned videogame for readers. They must interact with textual artifacts, deduct meaning, and grapple with the complex human issues turned upside down and inside out. You will perhaps not read a more interactive and fascinating novel this year.

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