Nothing That Cannot Be Undone Is Out Now

Nothing That Cannot Be Undone is available on Amazon today. You can get it here.

About 25 years ago I wrote a few lines in a notebook. An idea, nothing more. A man, a catastrophe, and a question I couldn't answer. I didn't know what to do with it, so I did what you do with an idea you can't use yet. I left it alone.

It wouldn't leave me alone. Through two decades of jobs, moves, long walks and three other books, it kept turning up at odd moments, usually when I was supposed to be thinking about something else. I never wrote it down again, and I never forgot it. That's how I knew it was a real one.

What the book is about

Daniel Cross opened the rift that killed eight billion people. He has opened another to save the rest.

That's the whole premise on the back cover, and I'll keep it there. Without spoiling anything, the story runs across two worlds, and neither of them is quite what it claims to be. People on both sides are telling each other stories about what happened and why. Some of those stories are kind, some are convenient, and some are flat lies. Daniel has to work out which is which while carrying the weight of the first rift, and the people he trusts to help him are not all doing it for the reasons they give.

It's a book about deception, and about how much of a disaster is the event and how much is what everybody agrees to say about it afterward.

Dystopian sci-fi in the vein of Klara and the Sun

If you've read Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, you know the register I was reaching for. Ishiguro is one of my favorite authors, and that book taught me that the quietest dystopias are the most unsettling. No spectacle for its own sake. A strange world seen through someone who's trying to do right by it, and the slow dawning that the rules of that world aren't what you were told.

I'm not claiming to be Ishiguro. Nobody is. But that restraint is what I aimed for. The rifts and the loss are enormous, and the book stays close and personal anyway, because that's where the damage actually lands.

Where to get it

Nothing That Cannot Be Undone is on Amazon now. Everything else I've written, and what's coming next, is on the books page.

If you read it, leave a review on Amazon. It helps more than you'd think, and I read every one.

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