Worlds

I have four active worlds in various stages of development. Two on the shelf
with existing stories you can read right now. And a granary full of
seeds waiting for their moment. Start wherever pulls you.

Active Worlds

Varenoth

Home of The Vulpine, my current work-in-progress. An early
late-preindustrial society with Lit RPG elements; a 'universal
fantasy' that borrows tropes from both Western and Eastern traditions,
then uses them differently or replaces them entirely. The goal: a
fantasy world that feels genuinely new while still feeling like fantasy.

I am actively writing in Varenoth. Updates appear in From
Grathew's Desk.

Slonminma

Slonminma is my oldest worldbuilding project, a twelve-year old monster. Which means it is my most developed world: extensive mythology, culture, and a conlang in progress. While I am adjusting the theology (again) it is a world where the theological bones matter. The first anthology of Slonminma stories is in preparation.

Oturn

Cyberpunk set among the stars. Oturn is the planet, a powerful backwater with one announced city: Port Ruby. Frontier energy, dozens of characters waiting, and a lot of unexplored territory to push into. My contribution to the genre that taught me you can build anything if you just keep asking what's at the edges of the map.

IrminSpace

A galaxy that started as the setting for an MMO, a mix of Star Citizen
meets Elite Dangerous and Eve Online with a civilization-builder
underneath it all. Then the players woke up inside it. A man built an
empire out in the black, off the main traveled map, and the NPCs are
watching the players arrive and slowly lose their minds. It's in
storage for now. Lurking. I'll be back for it.

The Archives

These worlds have published stories you can read right now. They're
shelved; not abandoned, just resting until the time and craft are
right to do them justice.

Noah Bannon: Space Ranger

A serialized sci-fi adventure 14 chapters, complete as they stand.
Noah Bannon is a Space Ranger doing what Space Rangers do across a
galaxy with a lot going on. The world has more depth than the serial
shows, and someday I'll come back, sharpen the craft, and turn it
into the book it deserves to be. For now: 14 chapters, ready to read.

Circuchron

A ringworld. A chapter-a-month serial I had to put down when college
intervened five chapters, including the start of Chapter 5. Bryan
Williamson falls into darkness and wakes up somewhere with hills in
the sky. It has what might be the best opening I've ever written.
The ringworld isn't going anywhere.

The Granary

Beyond the active worlds and the shelf, there are seeds. Stories in
New Year New Starts that each carry the DNA of a world that could be.
Notes in notebooks, documents, fragments. Most have structure — what
they are, how they work, what makes them different. They're not ready.
They're not supposed to be ready. They're waiting for the right
moment to become something.