The Far Side of Promise is an anthology of short stories spanning cyberpunk, high fantasy, psychological horror, and science fiction. In the titular story, a jaded deep-space miner sets out on a desperate bid for real food.
The boundary between the virtual and real worlds becomes an Ouroboros.
Alex Grant always gets what he wants-until he gets what he deserves in The Tower.
Many people hide skeletons in their closets, but in The Roommate, Roy talks to his.
At age ten, Kirsten Wren's mother tried to kill her. To survive, she followed a ghost Into the Beneath.
In A Queen's Lament, a young monarch copes with love, betrayal, and demons.
In Evergreen, seventeen-year-old Harper and her little sister find themselves alone after nuclear war.
Neris dreams constantly of A Ghost Among Fireflies, an unseen force compelling her to visit a dangerous, destroyed world.
Autorentext
Matthew has been creating science fiction and fantasy worlds for most of his reasoning life, which early on, took the form of roleplaying game settings. Since 1996, he has developed the "Divergent Fates" world, in which Division Zero, Virtual Immortality, The Awakened Series, The Harmony Paradox, and the Daughter of Mars series take place.
Matthew is an avid gamer, a recovered WoW addict, Gamemaster for two custom systems, and a fan of anime, British humour, and intellectual science fiction that questions the nature of reality, life, and what happens after it.
He is also fond of cats.
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Eric lives in two worlds, one real, one virtual… and the line between them blurs in Ouroboros.
In The Tower, Alex Grant is a man who gets what he wants-until he gets what he deserves.
Many people have skeletons in their closets, but in The Roommate, Roy talks to his.
When Kirsten Wren from the Division Zero series was ten years old, her mother almost killed her. To save herself, she went Into the Beneath.
In the fantasy tale A Queen's Lament, a young monarch suffers a challenge of conscience.
The story The Far Side of Promise follows a jaded deep-space miner on a desperate bid for real food.
In Evergreen, a young woman and her younger sister face the collapse of civilization following nuclear war.
A Ghost Among Fireflies tells the story of a privateer who takes a break from running cargo between planets to investigate an intense, recurring dream of a destroyed world.