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“Encore”

“Encore” 

This story was originally a bonus in the YA Scavenger Hunt, which was kinda like the game “Guess” in Twinmaker but without the machines that could take us anywhere at a simple command. It’s a creepy conspiracy-style urban myth about boy bands and the birth of d-mat. Enjoy!   “Encore” Pop stars are figures of […]

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New Story: “Immaterial Progress” (100!)

New Story: “Immaterial Progress” (100!) 

My 100th story is now available from Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. It charts the evolution of the urban myth concerning what happened when the first person went through d-mat. It riffs on the mutation of stories as well as the mutation of the body, using a non-standard structure and even a joke or two. Enjoy! […]

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“113” begins & other news

“113” begins & other news 

Take one novel. Rewrite it from scratch in a different genre and from a different character’s point of view. Release it on Wattpad for free. That’s 113. Originally called “Making and Remaking Iteration 113”, it is the first book in the Twinmaker series told from Q’s POV, which gives it a more serious, 60’s SF […]

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113 Chapter Remix

113 Chapter Remix 

Today I sold a new Twinmaker story to Lightspeed. “The Life of Riley” is kind of a break-up story, but the romance is far from a normal one. Several of my Twinmaker stories are romances. “Incomplete No.7” definitely is, and so is “All the Wrong Places”, which is due soon in Jonathan Strahan’s Meeting Infinity. […]

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