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David Deane Haskell writes visionary, suspense-driven scifi about consciousness, technology, and survival at the edge of collapse. Subscribe for serialized stories, short fiction, and exclusive first looks at his latest work.
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Failsafe (opens the original)
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The Premise: Tim Solomon runs his life on alarms, counts, and rituals so exacting they’d break most people just to maintain them — and it mostly works, until a psychiatrist takes something as small as a clock off the wall and threatens to unravel five years of careful architecture in a single session. For Fans Of: The clinical precision of Elizabeth Moon’s The Speed of Dark crossed with the deadpan absurdism of a Coen brothers script. A character study told entirely from inside a mind that trust
All or Nothing (opens the original)
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The Premise: A failed writer, eleven years into being high, hiding, and telling himself the next idea will fix everything. Then one actually shows up — perfect, for once — and starts slipping away before he can pin it down. So he tries to retrace the exact second it hit, before the truth beneath it disappears too. For Fans Of: BoJack Horseman by way of Requiem for a Dream. A darkly funny slide into addiction, built on the lie every relapse starts with. The Context: Addiction is good at making de
I’m David Deane Haskell. This Is What I Write. (opens the original)
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I had a great time talking with the crew at Blasters and Blades.We started with drumming, moved pretty quickly into Star Wars, dinosaurs, coffee, why I hate sushi despite living in Japan, and eventually got around to the actual reason I was there: writing science fiction and The Solarian Deep.One thing that came up early is something I struggle with all the time.I’m not good at branding.I write fiction and nonfiction. I’m a drummer. I write about trauma and healing. I write science fiction. Ever
Two Hours, Tops (opens the original)
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The Premise: A minor traffic stop turns into an overnight holding cell — no bondsman, no clock, no way to know how long it’ll last — while the guy tries to keep his guard up as the cellmates around him keep changing and getting worse. For Fans Of: Trainspotting meets a really unlucky Friday night. First-person, foul-mouthed, and funny in the way people get when they’re too scared to stop narrating. The Context: Nobody warns you what waiting actually does to your head. This one sits in that stret
Too Late to Step In (opens the original)
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The Premise: He’s convinced nobody would notice if he disappeared — except Sally, who’s been running on fumes for years just to keep them both afloat. Then one Thursday she stops pretending it’s fine. For Fans Of: Denis Johnson meets a Leonard Cohen breakup song. A man narrates his own rot in real time, certain he’s protecting the one person still stupid enough to love him. The Context: There’s a version of self-hatred that sounds like generosity — “she’d be better off without me” — right up unt
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