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Author · Storyteller
James Shaw
@jamesshaw
Science Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
James Shaw writes science fiction and dystopian. Their interests range from character and story structure to editing, formatting and the practical realities of independent publishing.
Writing gets interesting when the obvious choice stops working.
Books and story worlds
Stories by James Shaw
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Currently creating
First draft
The Quiet Index
In a city where every public record is edited by an automated civic system, Mara Venn works as a cataloguer of deleted things: names, streets, incidents, whole lives. When she finds a gap in the archive that points to a deliberate erasure rather than a routine correction, she starts tracing the missing record through the city’s official lies. The further she goes, the more she has to decide whether truth is worth becoming unpersoned herself.
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