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Author · Storyteller
Louisa Bell
@louisabell
Science Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Louisa Bell writes science fiction and speculative fiction. Their interests range from character and story structure to editing, formatting and the practical realities of independent publishing.
A story only works when somebody has something to lose.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Louisa Bell
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Later first draft
The Last Catalogue
In a future London where public libraries have become climate shelters, Mara Venn works as a catalogue editor for a city archive that keeps losing entire sections of its memory. When the missing records start pointing to people who were never officially born, she has to decide whether the archive is being damaged, censored, or quietly rewriting the city itself. The further she digs, the more she suspects the library is not preserving history so much as choosing which version survives.
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