Unsuitable Worlds – An Undead Manuscript

Every fiction writer has a trunk full of broken manuscripts. Most of mine are sad, lifeless things. But a few are different. Neither dead nor alive, they dwell in purgatory. They are the Undead Manuscripts.

Unsuitable Worlds is a space opera that never got finished. It was inspired by the epic science fiction novels I devoured as a teenager, and is to some degree derivative of them. That’s one of the reasons I never finished it. But there are aspects of the story that I still love, and a vibe...