A Death in Hyperspace, the interactive fiction game for which I was one of the writers, won the 2024 Nebula Award for Game Writing!
Transmentation | Transience by the co-writing team Darkly Lem (Josh Eure, Craig Lincoln, Ben Murphy, Cadwell Turnbull, and me) is out now. Publisher’s Weekly said:
Lem’s masterful worldbuilding is both sweeping and detailed, with believably delineated planets, ecologies, cultures, and governments. Sci-fi readers will be eager for a swift return to this setting.
My most recent solo book is Shores of a New Horizon, a Terraforming Mars novel. Estranged siblings must reunite to travel Mars and uncover a mystery which could threaten the future of humanity on the planet.
Hamlet, Prince of Robots, winner of the 2024 Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novella, is a beat-by-beat retelling of the Shakespeare classic which grapples with conscience, ambition, and pain, and what it means to be, or not to be, human.
My Nebula Award nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award winning game The Martian Job is interactive fiction where you play a safecracker called in to do one last casino heist… on Mars. There is also a standalone prequel novella, Retaking Elysium.
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, there are free samples of most of my books 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 is a novel-in-stories about the middle years on a generation starship. The Qubit Zirconium is a fun science fantasy featuring the odd-couple alien detective duo Wibble & Pplimz, and is part of the KeyForge universe.
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.