Part II: Magic, Technology & Limits What can’t your world do? So many systems and solutions Across Science Fiction and Fantasy, you’ll see common genre examples like wizards casting spells and drinking potions of arcane resilience or spaceborn soldiers fighting in low-gravity in mechsuits with laser rifles. To me (and any other fan of the two genres), magic and technology are f**king cool. They’re the spice and seasoning of the stories I read. Magic and technology as tools c

Part I: Power, Control, and Governance Here’s a (leading) question: How does power shape a novel’s world? A storm of tropes and archetypes Pick a random fantasy or science fiction book from your TBR list - even the one you weren’t sure about adding, but you did anyway. Inside it, well, you’re bound to encounter the efforts of the author’s labour with the classic tropes of power structure. The author will have deliberated on, planned for, selected from, and tweaked many ways i

Alright, it's up and running. It took longer than expected and came far later in the game than I'd intended (my debut novel came out at the end of 2023), but I finally sat down and set up my author website. I have some big ideas with this space - the hazard of being a Product Manager during the day. Everyone talks about goals and milestones that signify progress towards them, and so I'll do the same for this site. Bring my written work to the world I've thought about it, and