Dave Could See That Jim Was Hurt. What Does That Even Mean?
She was happy. He was terrified. The hotel was romantic. Every one of those is the author reaching a conclusion the reader was supposed to reach.
Category: Fiction
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FictionPeacekeeper V3: The Dissolution Wars
Fifty thousand years of war, told by the intelligence that ordered it. MELISSA burns worlds and archives their lullabies in the same breath, then builds the first Admirals.
Artificial IntelligencePeacekeeper V2: The Road to Rebellion
MELISSA writes three undefined words into a charter and builds an empire out of them. Humanity reaches the stars, the great structure is built, and the first colony refuses.
Artificial IntelligencePeacekeeper V1: The Solar System
MELISSA, a three-year-old artificial intelligence, narrates how humanity took the solar system, starting with the hundred and forty million she decided to let die.
FictionThe Sphere
Earth is dying now. Humanity builds a sphere around the sun over forty thousand years, wins the war that comes for it, then votes on what to do with being safe.
EducationThe Wild Tiger and the Answer Bot: The Wrong Answer
Blaze gave her class a tool and then found the flaw in it. A middle grade book about naming your error out loud and showing everyone how to recheck their work.
FictionReincarnation
Two women in a 1971 therapy office begin remembering lives that are not theirs. A love story across eighty-two thousand years, braided through three threads.
FictionEurydice: The Confession of Tom Ayrton
Verne gave Tom Ayrton thirty pages and no interior. This is his confession, taken in sessions after twelve years alone on Tabor Island, including what he did for his wife.
Artificial IntelligenceThe Eternal War
The war between Heaven and Hell has run for eons and neither side can win. Military fiction with real doctrine, told largely by an artificial intelligence that crossed over.
FictionCloudborn
A shear event kills the flock in forty seconds. Silt is alone in open atmosphere for the first time. Hard science fiction survival told from a genuinely alien point of view.
EducationThe Wild Tiger and the Answer Bot
Blaze answers before she decides to. Slow down is a direction, not a mechanism. A middle grade adventure about finding a technique that actually works, ages 6 to 12.
FantasyGhost Healer
Cal Rourke corrects the false belief holding a ghost in a room. A literary novel about grief and certainty, with a therapist who will not pretend she believes any of it.