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Over at Many Worlds, we’ve shared the incredible cover for Darkly Lem’s Transmentation | Transience: Or, An Accession to the People’s Council for Nine Thousand Worlds (Book One of The Formation Saga).

Phew, that’s a mouthful!

The book is the first in a trilogy coming in March 2025 from Blackstone, and the cover was designed by Kathryn English.

Darkly Lem is the shared pseudonym for five members of the Many Worlds collective: John Eure, Craig Lincoln, Ben Murphy, Cadwell Turnbull, and me! We are so excited to share these worlds with you all!

This weekend at Continuity, the 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand national SFF convention, Hamlet, Prince of Robots won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novella!

Thanks to the voters and my esteemed fellow nominees for their excellent company!

I’m delighted to share that Hamlet, Prince of Robots is a finalist for the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novella.

The Sir Julius Vogel awards are a fan-voted award recognizing excellence in science fiction, fantasy and horror from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Here’s what I published in 2023:

Novella

Hamlet, Prince of Robots

Short Story

“I, Not I” in Many Worlds or the Simulacra
“Blink” (as part of Darkly Lem) in Many Worlds or the Simulacra

I’m beside myself (and four other people) to be able to share that along with my co-writing team of Josh Eure, Craig Lincoln, Ben Murphy and Cadwell Turnbull, we’ve signed a three-book deal with Blackstone for a trilogy of multiversal political thrillers. The first book is planned to come out in late 2024.

Blackstone Publishing has also acquired another trilogy with Turnbull, as a part of Darkly Lem (which also includes authors Josh Eure, Craig Lincoln, Ben Murphy, and M. Darusha Wehm). Book 1 will be called Transmentation | Transience and is expected to release in Fall 2024. 

IN A (MANY) WORLD(S)… in which people can travel between universes – entering new bodies with entire in-universe identities gifted to them by a mysterious entity known as the Simulacrum – universe-spanning societies of interdimensional travelers have arisen over thousands of years. But this unchecked expansion has been curtailed in recent centuries as these societies encounter each other with greater frequency… and friction. Now they vie for power, knowledge, wealth, and control within their many worlds (actually many universes, but… that’s just not as poetic, is it?). For fans of The Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey, The Hainish Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin, and the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer.

Darkly Lem is five authors in an impeccably-tailored trenchcoat (Josh Eure, Craig Lincoln, Ben Murphy, Cadwell Turnbull, and M. Darusha Wehm). They live in an Earth-type locality in the Central Cluster with their five kids, several spouses, and a modest menagerie, where they are at work on Many Worlds novels.

From tor.com

My book Children of Arkadia is one of the core books in the brand new HopePunk StoryBundle, curated by Adam Gaffen.

Welcome to the Hopepunk bundle!

What is Hopepunk, you ask?

It’s a subgenre of speculative fiction, so it includes fantasy as well as science fiction, and it’s a reaction to the dystopian views that grimdark novels have. Where grimdark is violent and amoral, hopepunk stories feature characters who fight for positive change, communal responses to challenges, and even radical kindness. It’s an intentional ray of sunshine in what could be a bleak literary landscape. It’s taking a stand because it’s right, not because it’s profitable. It’s rebelling against an oppressive regime to improve everyone’s lot, not just your own. It emphasizes cooperation over conflict while realizing that a Happily Ever After isn’t guaranteed.

And it’s everywhere.

A few examples, you say?

How about The Martian? The classic Discworld novels? Jumping into movies, look at Black Panther. Or head to television and watch The Orville or Doctor Who. Hopepunk promises that tomorrow can be better than today, given passion and effort.

And it’s here for you today!

We’ve gathered some of the most rousing, forward-thinking, relatable Hopepunk novels on the market for you today and put them into this special bundle. Check it out!

Adam Gaffen

For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you’re feeling generous), you’ll get the basic bundle of four books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE.

• The Stars and Green Magics by Novae Caelum
• Red Dot by Mike Karpa
• Children of Arkadia by M. Darusha Wehm
• The Road to the Stars by Adam Gaffen

If you pay at least the bonus price of just $20, you get all four of the regular books, plus seven more books/boxed sets for a total of 11!

• The Adventures of Wil Calder by John Wilker
• The Left Hand of Dog by Si Clarke
• Aces High, Jokers Wild: Books 1-3 by O.E. Tearmann
• Tanis Richards: Shore Leave by M. D. Cooper
• The Ariadne Cycle – Boxed Set by J. Scott Coatsworth
• The Andlios Collection – Books 1-3 by Dave Walsh
• City of Kaus: Books 1-3 by Dani Hoots

The Qubit Zirconium is out today in US paperback and ebook everywhere!

Alien detectives stumble across a mystery that could tear apart their patchwork planet, the Crucible, in this riotous science fantasy novel from the smash hit game, KeyForge.

Wibble & Pplimz, the Crucible’s most unusual private investigators, must set off from their office in Hub City to clear the name of a former client. Along the way, their investigation broadens from a simple accusation of theft to include a missing person, a potential murder, and a highly unusual gem. Four interlinking incidents take them across the Crucible, as they attempt to solve the case. But there’s something more sinister lurking underneath: evidence of a secret society that aims to discover the power of the Architects, and forever change the nature of the Crucible itself.