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Zachary Thomas Dodson

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Zach Dodson co-founded Zach Dodson is the author of the illuminated novel Bats of the Republic (Doubleday, 2015) and former publisher at featherproof books where he designed many innovative and award-winning hybrid books. He co-founded the Visual Narrative Lab at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and runs a secret studio called Interactive Tragedy, Limited. There he’s recently released the game Sub-Verge along with companion novella Subtle Mind, and is working on KUU. A random selection of experiments can be seen at zachdodson.com.
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New Novella, Subtle Mind, out now! with a dive into Interactive Tragedies...

I have a new novella out today. But this is a very different launch than Bats of the Republic...

In a city sustained by an eternal waterfall, an idle fisherman from the upper class takes an opportunistic shot at the High Commissioner. Accused of attempted assassination, he is cast into a subterranean labyrinth, where he uncovers the scaffolding of lies that has kept the Surfacers’ city sundered Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 05, 2025 04:18 • Tags: fiction, game, hybrid, novella, sci-fi

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	Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel 3.51 avg rating — 2,418 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nightingale That Never Sang by Juliana Hyrri, Zachary Thomas Dodson (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 345 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Riddance: Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson, Zachary Thomas Dodson (Goodreads Author) (Designer) 3.29 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	boring boring boring boring boring boring boring by Zach Plague, Zachary Thomas Dodson (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Subtle Mind by Zachary Thomas Dodson (Goodreads Author), Tiia Reijonen (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Experimental Book Object by Sami Sjöberg (Editor), Mikko Keskinen (Editor), Arja Karhumaa (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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With hand-drawn illustrations, a novel-within-a-novel, and even a sealed envelope the reader must not open, Bats of the Republic is a feast for the...

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A fascinating, multi-faceted look at what the book is, was, and might become. It was an honor to contribute a chapter about the making of KUU.
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“Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.”
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“I am a tea, he thought. I am some kind of tea. And I have wishes.”
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“That one brown house still had that hole in its garage door splintering like a chewed cookie smile, the hole the exact size and height of the car parked on the driveway in front of it.”
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