Chris Sarantopoulos

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Chris Sarantopoulos

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Chris Sarantopoulos is a Greek writer who seamlessly embraced both English and his native language in his literary journey. He has a passion for crafting compelling stories in the realms of science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, cyberpunk, dystopia, fantasy, and horror.

Sarantopoulos is the author of the critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic horror novel, “The Darkening” and the “Matriarchs – Silicon Gods” series, a cyberpunk thriller series that blends elements of noir, nanopunk, and biopunk.

Currently residing in Greece, Chris Sarantopoulos is diligently working on his latest literary endeavour, an epic space opera series.

His work has appeared on Beyond Imagination, Voluted Tales, and Eternal Haunted Summer among other literary magazine
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Time to move on

Dear followers,


Since all things grow (myself included unfortunately), it’s time for this blog to grow too. As such, it’s time to migrate to a new home. I started this blog back in April 2014 to track my writing journey and in that time, it served me well. I got to meet all of you and share our stories. This journey now takes me to new places. Uncharted territory, as far as I’m concerned. Scary too

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