This is my LONG FORM FICTION tab, for my two novels. The more formally conventional one, The Memory Addicts, also has its own dedicated section: 

see the "more information here" button. But there are teasers for it below.

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1) THE MEMORY ADDICTS, a novel by Derek Kannemeyer, September 2022,

Atmosphere Press (346 pages), ISBN: 978-1-63988-409-4

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a) THE MEMORY ADDICTS: the pitch & the character breakdown

 

b) THE MEMORY ADDICTS TIMELINE: the book's evolving history, 2012 to publication.

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2) STALKING CRAWLROLLIES is a hybrid work, currently with limited availability, till I figure out what to do with it. It's a space opera mockumentary novel, with the core action narrated by the central character (Gordo Chessland) in the style of an epic Lewis Carroll style nonsense poem. Gordo and I are listed as co-authors: I'm a purported academic, preparing a new official edition of the poem, one rich in historical commentary and documentary artwork. Because the artwork (digitally manipulated photography) transfers poorly to non-photographic paper, the book is currently only available at blurb.com, as a $37 soft cover artbook or a $7 downloadable PDF: ISBN-13: 979-8331253127.

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Here's a description: "Stalking Crawlrollies is an illustrated novel, hybrid in style, tone, and form. It's rooted in mockumentary humor, but as the stakes rise, riding a high wire of the heroic and the ridiculous, the tone darkens and deepens. The core story is improbable space opera. Gordo Chessland and four other genetically unusual young people are conscripted to repel an alien invasion. A scientist, a drill sergeant, and a second alien species are their allies. The Crawlrollies’ weaponry is not only physical but temporal and mental; the core action, which builds to a final, hallucinogenic battle waged on the moon, is recounted, by Gordo, as a kind of kamikaze nonsense saga. Equal weight, however, is given to the interwoven cultural commentary, featuring chatty and learned input from the surviving combatants and a pair of adulatory academics, who frame the events as planet-saving recent history. Much of their documentation is supported by vibrant and immersive graphics. It makes for a cocktail of off the wall humor, epic space fantasy action, meticulous world-building, and wild visual style."

 

I'd love it if you went to Blurb and ordered your own downloadable PDF, but in the meantime, why not hang out here and enjoy my copy?

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PDF: Stalking Crawlrollies, the full digital text!