“𝗔 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿-𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗙 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲.” — 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙠𝙪𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬𝙨

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Who Yields Power in 2096? - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author Power in 2096 is not concentrated in a single tyrant or a single institution. It is distributed across interlocking systems — corporate, informational, biological, and political — in ways that ...

Who Holds Power in 2096? Inside the #Dystopian #Future of the Shards Trilogy
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How Podcast Guesting Can Launch an Author Career: The Microphone as Megaphone - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author The most comprehensive author podcast directory ever assembled. 400+ podcasts, pitching platforms, and case studies of authors who used podcast guesting to build their careers. Science fiction, horror, speculative fiction, ...

Podcast Guesting for Authors: Microphone as Megaphone
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I don't process it so much as recover from it.

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No One Will Sing Songs in Our Memory: A Definitive Guide to Grimdark Fantasy - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author A definitive guide to Grimdark fantasy — the genre that answered Tolkien's moral clarity with a question about Aragorn's tax policy. Origins in Elric and the Black Company, the Warhammer ...

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Revising outline for Books 2 & 3 in my Shards of a Shattered Sky trilogy (Book 1 is out NOW!), and already started writing Book 2. Lots of skull-crushing action, future tech, love, loss & a conclusion you won't fully see coming until it hits you. www.amazon.com/One-Grain-Sa...

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Flow State and the Faithful Routine: How the Masters Sustained Daily Practice Without Burning Out - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author Writing routine deep case studies of Octavia Butler, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel García Márquez, and N.K. Jemisin reveal how great authors built sustainable daily writing routines that ...

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What Marvel & DC’s Multiverses Teach SF Novelists
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How Marvel & DC built their multiverses & how we can build our own

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20 Story Structure Frameworks: The Complete Guide for Fiction Writers - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author 20 Plotting Methods Every Fiction Writer Should KnowTwenty story structure frameworks—from Aristotle's three acts to Kishōtenketsu—explained, compared, and demonstrated through speculative fiction case studies. The essential guide to plotting your novel.

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What 2096 Could Look Like If We Don’t Act Now - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author A lyrical, data-grounded vision of America in 2096 — the plausible, peer-reviewed future hiding inside today’s headlines — drawn from the research that underlies dystopian science fiction Shards of a ...

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Why I Chose 2096 for My Dystopian Science Fiction Trilogy - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author Why 2096? The year is not arbitrary — it is load-bearing. A personal essay on the distance, symbolism, and storytelling logic that made 2096 the only possible home for the Shards of a Shattered Sky trilogy.

Why I Chose 2096 for My Dystopian Science Fiction Series-
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2096 is not an arbitrary date — it sits at the precise distance where plausibility and imagination can coexist.
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Tools Explore some of the online Tools and resources author David Somerfleck uses or has used.

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There we go, Orson Welles would dig this. Great background for a chiaroscuro classic b&w profile photo; ideal for a moody author of speculative fiction and horror, right?

Now this reminds me of Federico Fellini, if a little more stark somehow.

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I still love that show. Which version do you honestly feel is best? The OG or the reboot (which ironically lasted much longer)?

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2 of 2) I love the doves as much as emerald forest and wild rabbits playing amongst one another in isolated narrowly-silent yawning Spring marshes, but the characters' strident call is sharper still.

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1 of 2) Nothing like a muscular cup of muddy Earl Grey in the morning so I can hear the plaintive soft cooing of mourning doves in the trees just over our modest garden; and pivot to begin writing Books 2 and 3 of my "Shards of a Shattered Sky" trilogy......

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The Outer Limits and Powerful Story Arcs - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author In the black-and-white hush of early television, The Outer Limits often stages its stories like sealed laboratories: a corridor, a console, a trembling

The Outer Limits Story Arcs: What the Anthology Genre's Forgotten Classic Still Teaches
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Everyday Life in 2096 - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author The grand dystopian fiction systems of 2096 — the surveillance architecture, the depleted aquifer, the fractured politics — all eventually arrive at the same address: the plate on the table, ...

Everyday Life in 2096: What Survival Really Looks Like in a Dystopian Future
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Ordinary life in #2096 is not apocalyptic theater but the grinding normality of a world that forgot how to care.
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Why the Twilight Zone Revivals Never Landed - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author The Twilight Zone has been revived three times since Rod Serling's original ended in 1964. The 1985 version lasted three seasons. The 2002 version lasted one. The Jordan Peele 2019 ...

Why the Twilight Zone Revivals Never Landed
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Every attempt to revive the Twilight Zone has had the budget, the talent, and the cultural moment — and none of them have had the edge.
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The Word as World: A Definitive Guide to the Life and Work of Samuel R. Delany - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author Samuel R. Delany — the Black gay dyslexic prodigy from Harlem who became science fiction's James Joyce. His life, his struggles, his writing craft, his stylistic influences, his common themes, ...

A Definitive Guide to the Life and Work of Samuel R. Delany
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The Ones Who Won't Let Go: The Literary Science of the Enduring Series Protagonist - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author What makes Sherlock Holmes, Lisbeth Salander, Jack Reacher, Mack Bolan, Tarzan, Flavia de Luce, Vanessa Michael Munroe, Remo Williams, Veronica Speedwell, and Jane Whitefield impossible to forget? An examination of ...

he Literary Science of the Enduring Series Protagonist
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Betrayal in Dystopian Fiction
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Why betrayal is dystopian fiction's most devastating structural move.
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