Seeing this in Robin Sloan’s legendary annual gift guide made my day
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Seeing this in Robin Sloan’s legendary annual gift guide made my day
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@eliotpeper.bsky.social’s new book comes out to day. Here’s what I thought about it.
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I've been an @eliotpeper.bsky.social fan for years now. I read this cover-to-cover in one sitting.
Can't recommend ENSORCELLED more highly.
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Recent Reads: Ensorcelled. Eliot Peper's novella is a love story, to the mountains of the High Sierra and to the power of storytelling and gameplaying. It's also the story of a life well-lived and, oh so much more, all packed into a little volume that shows we can still make beautiful books. Worthy.
Yay! Thank you!
Thanks so much, Simon. I can't imagine a better pairing.
Thanks so much Matt! Delighted to hear you're enjoying the story.
This week @eliotpeper.bsky.social’s new novella ENSORCELLED has been living in my jacket pocket, with me on my commutes
I’m transported to a mountain lake, the wilderness in vivid 15 minute spells
I was lucky enough to get an advance copy
It’s out today
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Ensorcelled is my best work. If you’re new to my writing, start here. If you’re a longtime reader, get ready for a journey you won’t soon forget.
I can’t wait to hear what you think.
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This story was new territory for me and I had to brave many forking paths and dead ends before finding my way to the heart of it, but, in the words of the protagonist, “the only voyages worth embarking on are those that venture into the unknown.”
My new book drops today!
Ensorcelled is a coming-of-age adventure about a boy who goes on a camping trip that changes his life, opening his mind and rewilding his attention.
At just 90 pages, it's a one-sitting read that will suck you in, make you think, and leave you changed.
If you preorder Ensorcelled directly from me, I will personally sign and send you a copy a week before it comes out on October 8th so you get to read it before anyone else.
I poured my heart into this story and can’t wait to hear what you think.
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At just 90 pages, Ensorcelled is a single-sitting read. For years, I've harbored an unreasonable affection for short novels, so it's been tremendous fun to finally write my own and produce a tiny but beautiful paperback that will slip into your pocket as easily as you slip into the narrative.
This kind of smaller, gentler, more intimate storytelling required me to stretch new muscles as a writer, and it's been really special to hear from early readers who have found it to be a source of solace.
Most of my novels are high-concept near-future thrillers, and while Ensorcelled does have speculative elements, at its heart, it's a simple tale about a boy who goes on a camping trip that opens his mind to new ways of seeing.
I wrote a book!
Whoa! Thanks for sharing.
Straight out of an @eliotpeper.bsky.social novel.
His novel Foundry, specifically. A recommended near-future thriller about the geopolitics of silicon.
Fun to stumble upon this in Paul Roe's mega-guide to cyberpunk
The opposite of fear
This is the story I contributed.
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"Featuring original short stories by Kim Stanley Robinson, Eliot Peper, and Mark Alpert—brought to life by master performers, stunning animations, and a live string quartet—Climate Parables invites us to imagine the futures we still have time to shape."
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This evening Anthropocene Magazine is producing a Climate Parables show at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
The SF performance sold out, so get tix while they last!
James Somers gets it
“This is how I wish the world was different” is one of my least favorite genres of discourse.
On the other hand, “here is a concrete plan for making this particular aspect of the world better” is one of my favorites.
"If identity is the stories you tell yourself about yourself, culture is the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves." @eliotpeper.bsky.social every.to/thesis/ai-is...
Fresh order ready to go!
I’ll be out of town for the next couple weeks, so if you want a signed copy, order ASAP so I can drop it off at the post office today.
