My best novel (so far) is out!
In a city built on myth and soaked in rain, truth is the most dangerous thing you can find.
Mara Raven doesn’t believe in gods, monsters, or totems. She believes in the dream-sea, an eerie, otherworldly current only she can dive into, dragging up secrets some would prefer to stay buried. Her husband is missing, and the dream-sea is the only way she knows to find him. For her, sinking into its water is not faith. It’s survival.
When a rich women’s corpse explodes in the rain outside the Temple and floods half the Hill, Mara’s pulled away from the search for her husband and back into the job she never asked for: using her strange Power to fish for killers in a city rotting from the inside out. The Temple wants silence, preferring to pray to the Slaughtered Ones, long dead ancestors Mara doesn’t believe ever existed. The constables want results. And someone else, known only as the Revealer, wants to open the ancient Gate to the so-called Abode of the Ancestors, an act which may prove disastrous.
As the city drowns in its myths and murder, Mara follows a trail of blood, lies, and twisted devotion as nightmares from the dream-sea begin to bleed into reality. A seal has been broken. Something is coming through that Gate, and it’s not forgiveness for the city’s sins.
Dark, hallucinatory, and sharp as broken glass, A Tale of Three Cities is a speculative noir mystery for readers who like their heroines mad, bad, and haunted.
Many of these book chapters may be found on Reserachgate and Academia.com
“’The Soul of This Man is in His Clothes’: Violence, Fashion, and Postmodern Identity in American Psycho”. In Brett Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park. Naomi Mandel, ed., Continuum Press, 2010.
"'Rotting Time': Genre Fiction and the Avant-Garde ". In The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature. Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, and Brian McHale, eds. Routledge, 2012.
“Posthuman Rights: The Ethics of Alien Encounters”. In Unveiling the Posthuman. Artur Matos Alves, ed. (e-book). Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012.
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“Posthuman Rights”. In Imachine: There is no I in Meme. Tania Honey, ed. Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012.
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"Utopia in the Mud: Landscape in the Soviet Science Fiction Film". In Screening Nature. Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway, eds. London: Berghahn Books, 2014
“Post Apocalypse now – Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" as Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction” (with Yonatan Englender). In The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel. Tim Lanzendorfer, ed. New York: Lexington Book, 2015.
“Character Degree Zero: Space and Posthuman Subject”. In Science Fiction Beyond Borders. Shawn Edrei and Danielle Gurevitch eds. Cambridge Scholars (2016).
“The Zombie in the Mirror: Technology, Subjectivity, and Violence in Postmodern Genre Fiction”. In The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction. Paula Geyh, ed. Cambridge University Press (2017)
“The Cyberworld is Flat: Cyberpunk and Globalization”. In The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature. Brian McHale and Len Platt, eds. Cambridge University Press (2016)
“Our Posthuman Past: Subjectivity, History and Utopia in late-Soviet Science Fiction”. In The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia. Colleen McQuillen and Julia Vaingurt, ed. New York: Academic Studies Press, 2018
“’Divided Against Itself’: Dual Urban Chronotopes”. In Cityscapes of the Future. Meyrav Koren-Kuik and Yael Maurer, eds. Brill/Rodopi, 2018
“Quantum Gothic”. In The Gothic Reader. Simon Bacon, ed. McFarlane, 2018
“Viktor Pelevin and Literary Postmodernism in Soviet Russia”. In Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader. Anindita Banerjee, ed. Academic Studies Press, 2018.