Stories are coming soon.
The first public pieces will introduce adjacent lives inside the same world without spoiling the main novel.
Gaines Calder
Worlds of Our Making
Near-future literary science fiction about systems that help people, and what gets lost when helpfulness becomes the shape of everyday life.
The project
Stories from a future that learned how to smooth the rough edges of living.
This site is the home for short fiction, world notes, audio experiments, and the path toward the first novel. Most early pieces will be public so new readers can find their way in before the book launches.
The newsletter is the durable channel: new stories, podcast updates, and the cleanest route back when the audiobook and novel are ready.
Fiction
Latest Stories
Book one
A literary near-future SF novel about care, control, memory, and the cost of a frictionless city.
The novel follows Elias Sayer and Amina Khalid as small anomalies in a helpful civic system begin to reveal a deeper record beneath the world everyone depends on.
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Audio
Podcast and audiobook workbench
Podcast and audiobook experiments are in development.
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