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A Death in Hyperspace is the Nebula Award winner!

I am still not entirely sure this isn’t a hyperspace-induced illusion, but A Death in Hyperspace just won the Nebula Award for Game Writing!

So many thanks to my excellent collaborators: Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Natalia Theodoridou, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, and Jinjing Xiao.

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A Death in Hyperspace is a Nebula Awards Finalist!

I worked on a really fun collaborative interactive fiction project called A Death in Hyperspace, and it is a finalist for the Nebula Award in Game Writing this year!

Thanks to my collaborators: Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.

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2024 Year in Review

Happy new year all! Here’s what I did in 2024:

My tie-in novel with the board game Terraforming Mars, Shores of a New Horizon, came out.

I contributed to the short interactive fiction project A Death in Hyperspace for the IF Comp.

Hamlet, Prince of Robots, won the Sir Julius Vogel award for best novella!

And, of course, along with the other darklies, I was working on the trilogy project which begins with Transmentation | Transience, which will be out in March.

It will be here before we know it!

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Transmentation | Transience Cover Reveal

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!

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Where to find me at Worldcon Glasgow

I am going to be in-person at Worldcon Glasgow, so if you see me, say hi!

I’ll be at the following events:

Is the Multiverse the New Time Travel?
Saturday, August 10, 2024 10:00 BST

Edgar GovernoM. Darusha WehmPaul Princejvstin Weimer (moderator)Ruth EJ BoothS.B. Divya

It used to be that if you wanted to resurrect a character, you had to turn back time. Now, you just bring over a doppelganger from the nearest parallel universe. Is this innovative or lazy? Why is this happening all of a sudden? What does it mean for narrative conventions when all bets are off?

Stroll with the Stars – Sunday, The Tall Ship
Sunday, August 11, 2024 09:00 BST

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Hamlet Won a Sir Julius Vogel Award

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!

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Hamlet is a Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist

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.

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2023 Awards Eligibility

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

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Three-Book Deal with my Co-Writing Team, Darkly Lem

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

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Hamlet, Prince of Robots Playlist

I’ve put together a kind of soundtrack for Hamlet, Prince of Robots. Arguably there are some spoilers in here, so if you haven’t read the book yet, you’ve been warned.

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