78,000 word literary horror in the best sense of the genre. Think ancient monsters held by modern threads to the world they once knew, fighting time before complete ecological collapse. Manuscript available.
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GJ Herman
Literary horror, near-future speculative, historical fiction, space opera and long-form stories about identity, memory, power and the systems that people survive.
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Shudder
A 78,000-word work of literary horror with elements of speculative thriller, blending systemic dread with Gothic undertones of loss, failed connection and inevitable consequence.
Shudder is complete, polished and stands on its own while setting the world for further novels. It is horror in the best sense of the word: non-pulpy, with a literary spine and concerned as much with the compromises people make to keep systems running as with the terror pressing against the edge of the page.
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Book one of the Loadtech sequence: DOWNLOAD. UPLOAD. DELETE. DOWNLOAD is a 122,000-word near-future thriller with post-cyberpunk, speculative science fiction elements and a strong character-driven core. Manuscript available.
Memory has become the most powerful technology of the age—and its most dangerous uncertainty. UPLOAD continues the post-cyberpunk saga begun in DOWNLOAD, plunging deeper into the blurred definition of what truly defines identity.
The planned third Loadtech novel, closing the trilogy around memory, ownership, and power. DELETE takes the storyline to the inevitable end as we witness the inexorable decline of the entire world of Loadtech, consuming all those within.