The novel

Incursion is a contemporary dark science fiction novel with elements of cosmic horror. It is complete at about 140,000 words.

Darren Green has long tired of the excuses of the powerful for why living hells remain upon the earth. After years of calculation, and with his telepathic and telekinetic abilities having grown to near-godlike levels, he is finally ready to act. He reveals himself to the world when he intervenes to prevent a genocide, certain there can be no greater crime.

He is wrong.

For beneath the fabric of reality lies the horror that murdered the first universe, a malevolence that despises our species almost as much as Darren despises himself. To those unlucky enough to hear its voice it makes an offer: whatever you want, in exchange for a home in your mind.

It comes now to unmake time itself, so nothing will have ever been, and nothing we’ve ever done will matter. Darren knows only its hate, and its power—enough to know it must be stopped.

To do so, he must journey across the world and far beyond it, and deep inside himself—because this malevolence feels familiar. Like the unknown provenance of his powers, and the terror he sees in the eyes of those he tries to help, this apparent connection bears down upon the crumbling structure of his mind, Darren’s psyche built in desperate denial of the one thing he has always known, that no amount of good deeds can ever make up for.

That he is a monster.

The book is informed by my own experiences with severe depression.

You can read the first seven chapters (about 45 pages) by downloading them here:

• Word document

• US Letter PDF

• eBook formatted for Kindle

• eBook formatted for Apple Books

• Generically-formatted eBook

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