The novel
I am currently querying Incursion. It is a fast-paced and contemporary dark speculative novel, which acts as the scaffolding upon which a visceral portrayal of severe depression is built. It brings you into the mind of a good man with strange abilities, one terrified that, beneath it all, he is a monster. There’s also a spaceship that plays pranks. It is complete at about 140,000 words.
Imagine the otherworldliness and intricacy of Scott Hawkins’ The Library at Mount Char, crossed with William Styron’s memoir Darkness Visible, and at times the brutality of Christopher Buehlman’s Between Two Fires. Or, from another angle, Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son crossed with Picasso’s Guernica.
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 intervenes to prevent a genocide but, in doing so, is shocked to discover something even worse, hidden beneath the fabric of reality: the horror that murdered the first universe, a malevolence that despises our species almost as much as Darren despises himself.
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.
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