M. Darusha Wehm

Explorer of Worlds Real and Imagined

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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you’ll find something you like here.

If you want to read something short, check out the free stories available here or the links under “Publications” go to other places my stories have been published. Some of those are free to read online.

If you prefer longer works, I have free samples of all my novels available on the site. Beautiful Red was my first book, and is a standalone cyberpunk story. Self Made, Act of Will, The Beauty of Our Weapons and Pixels and Flesh are a series (in that order) about future detective Andersson Dexter. Children of Arkadia is a standalone political space station epic and The Voyage of the White Cloud (forthcoming) is a novel-in-stories about the middle years on a generation starship.

I’ve also written a novel-length interactive fiction game called The Martian Job, where you play a safecracker called in to do one last casino heist… on Mars.

My newest mainstream book, The Home for Wayward Parrots, is a lighthearted coming-of-age story full of geek pop culture and foul-mouthed birds. The YA series, Devi Jones’ Locker, is mainstream fiction — a light beach read that brings the beach to you. The first book in this series is Packet Trade.

You can also get exclusive monthly content over at my Patreon page, for as little as a dollar a month.

Reviews

Children of Arkadia
Wehm writes novels of ideas in which the ideas genuinely matter… [I]t’s a pleasure to see political and ethical questions, so often relegated to the background in science fiction, allowed so much scope to drive the story. — David Larsen, New Zealand Herald
The Home for Wayward Parrots
A love song to late bloomers, eclectic families, and all the assorted weirdos, hang-ups, and half-understood stories that make up a life. — Greg Bechtel, author of Boundary Problems
A bittersweet tale of eccentricity, delayed development and getting on with the messy business of life. Plus parrots. — Toronto Star

Upcoming Events

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    November 10 @ 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm NZDT

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Free Stories

  • Chekhov’s PhaserChekhov’s Phaser
    I never planned to end up here. I’ve never planned anything, really. All my life has been like that: I see an opportunity and I take it. Sometimes that works out better than other times. So why should this be any different? I’d just been by docking station three, slipping …
  • FameFame
    “Pupusas?” The woman’s nasal voice reached Randall at the back of the bus before he saw her pushing her way down the aisle. He could smell the warm, raw meat smell of his own sweaty body, and his stomached wriggled. He was hungry, but he couldn’t face mysterious little bits …

From the blog

The Martian Job—Interactive Novel

I’m stoked to announce that the project I’ve been working on for the last year is out this week—and you can play the demo now!

Watch the trailer… it’s awesome!

From Choice of Games:

Welcome to Mars, where one last safecracking job could nab you enough platinum to last a lifetime. But how will you pull off your heist? Do you hack into the vault, blast your way in, or finesse the locks? Can you trust your misfit team of grifters and con artists? Can they trust you?

The Martian Job is an interactive text game where you create your own character to act as the protagonist. Find out more and play the demo now at Choice of Games.

The Voyage of the White Cloud — Coming Soon!

Coming to Patreon in July as a serialized novel in text and audio, my new standalone novel The Voyage of the White Cloud.

Can home be a place you’ve never been, a place no one has ever been?

The White Cloud is the most audacious experiment the human species has ever undertaken—to search for a new Earth. The ship and its crew exist for a solitary purpose—to reach a distant planet and establish a colony. However, the vast majority of people undertaking this journey will not live to see its result, nor were they part of the decision-making process to leave.

A novel-in-stories, following the many generations who make the journey, The Voyage of the White Cloud asks how can you find meaning as a slave to destiny, a mere stepping-stone in history?

These are the stories of the most ordinary people on a most extraordinary journey.

Patrons at the Short Stuff level will get the weekly text episodes and patrons at higher levels will get access to the audio as well. All Access patrons will receive the complete ebook before the wide release in December. Find out more about my Patreon here.

PS. Look at that gorgeous cover!! From the incredible Holly Heisey.

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