The novel
I am seeking representation for my novel A WEAPON UNDONE (dark contemporary SFF, with elements of psychological, body, and eldritch horror), complete at about 130,000 words.
In Weapon…, a political radical—a modern-day John Brown—with strange abilities tries to stop eldritch horrors from entering and unmaking the universe, even as he’s certain he’s something even worse. It blends the intricacy of Scott Hawkin’s The Library at Mount Char with the brutality of Christopher Buehlman’s Between Two Fires. For the protagonist’s experiences, imagine Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son crossed with Picasso’s Guernica.
Darren Green learned much as a child. That shadows can come for you. That adults don’t like it when you tell them what they’re thinking. That you can’t let people see who you are because they will fear and walk away instead of stay and understand, because there’s something inscrutably wrong about you. That maybe you don’t deserve to exist.
At 32, he has grown into near god-like telekinetic abilities of unknown provenance, and begun a mission to free those pinned beneath the boots of despots, and end crimes against humanity. Something to keep living for. But to those powerful, who crave order over justice, he must be stopped. Be discredited. If possible, be killed.
While preventing a massacre, he finds something deep in the woods: a sickening presence, overflowing with hate, that vanishes as he nears. Worse, it felt strangely familiar. As he investigates this unsettling connection, he discovers a nightmarish threat: an ancient evil is coming to unmake reality itself. They’ve already found someone here to help them, and time is running out.
Darren is a broken man, facing a hatred from beyond, as the world turns against him. To prevail, he’ll have to finally reckon with the truth.
That he really is a monster.
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