Works
Novels
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2014)
- The Gone World (2018)
Short stories
- "The Disposable Man" (2012)
- "The Sandbox Singularity" (2018)
- "Neuro-Dancer" (2020)
Movie scripts
- Rakka (2017), with Oats Studios
- Firebase (2017), with Oats Studios
- Zygote (2017), with Oats Studios
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- ↑ Humann, Heather Duerre (August 13, 2019). "Reconstructing reality in Tomorrow and Tomorrow". Reality Simulation in Science Fiction Literature, Film and Television. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. pp. 66–75. ISBN 978-1-4766-7753-8.
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