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Author · Storyteller
Marcus Rees
@marcusrees
Science Fiction writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Marcus Rees writes across science fiction and speculative fiction, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Readers notice more than writers sometimes give them credit for.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Marcus Rees
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First draft
The Quiet Index
In a Dublin run by a citywide archival system that predicts, preserves and politely edits public memory, a worn-out metadata technician starts noticing gaps where entire incidents should be. When the missing records begin to point back to her own work, she has to decide whether the city is erasing mistakes or erasing people.
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Paperwork on the page has a strange job. If it is too legible, it starts competing with the scene. If it is too blurr...
16 August 2026
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A real letter or newspaper report can give a scene a nice bit of grit, but it can also become a very efficient way of...
16 August 2026