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Maej

Maej

Delicately plotted, sumptuously set and vibrantly worded, MAEJ is a lavish standalone high-fantasy epic, perfect for fans of A Stranger in Olondria.

2024

Dale Stromberg

Dale Stromberg

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My Writing

My posts on Medium are a jumble of different sorts. I’ve made this page to pin to my profile as a way of organising my stuff.

Mar 26, 2023

An antique typewriter on an old wooden desk.

Mar 26, 2023

14 Characteristics of an Antifascist Superhero

Is an antifascist superhero possible — or even interesting?

Sep 21

A black-and-white poster on a concrete wall shows two figures in balaclavas and the legend SMASH FASCISM.

Sep 21

Paying the Infinite Cost of Uploading

Thoughts on transhumanism

May 6

A digitally altered image of a human brain made to look coated in chromium against a background patterned like circuits.

May 6

Hamlet Does Not Want to Shtup His Mother

A competitor notion to that weird Oedipal theory

Jan 6

A detail from a movie poster for the 1948 Hollywood production of Hamlet starring Laurence Olivier, in which Hamlet’s mother Gertrude has fallen back onto her bad as Hamlet stands threateningly (and rather suggestively) over her with his sword pointed at her. His, ahem, “sword”.

Jan 6

North Continent Ribbon: a review

A beautiful, dark, hopeful collection of six linked sci-fi stories.

Dec 27, 2024

The cover image of Ursula Whitcher’s collection North Continent Ribbon: an illustration of a vista of a green valley nestled among mountains with futuristic-looking domes and buildings, including a towering spire with a ribbon-like structure winding up and around it. In the foreground stands a single character, her back to us as she surveys the view.

Dec 27, 2024

Failure to Comply: a review

A post-nature dystopia where humans live within a totalitarianism of hygiene.

Dec 15, 2024

The cover image of Cavar’s novel Failure to Comply, featuring white text on a black background, text which “echoes” disorientatingly because outlines of the letters stutter around the text.

Dec 15, 2024

A Novelist’s Discomfort with Consumerism

How a reading of Arendt’s “The Human Condition” has got me thinking about the value of novels like mine.

Nov 12, 2024

A photo of a wall of potato chip packages lined up on shelves with price tags.

Nov 12, 2024

Just Who Is “You”?

How ludicrous, and even arrogant, that the author would presume to tell the actual reader what she was actually doing!

Aug 28, 2024

The window of a darkened office with the reflection of a neon sign which reads, “What is your story?”

Aug 28, 2024

Like a City of Tents in the Wind

An interview with author Tucker Lieberman

Aug 19, 2024

A detail from the cover of Tucker Lieberman’s novel Most Famous Short Film of All Time, showing the book title and author name on a cinema marquee.

Aug 19, 2024

“Strange, Wonderful, and Sometimes Heartbreaking”

An interview with author Hengtee Lim

Aug 18, 2024

Hengtee Lim’s short fiction collection Something Like Hope placed on a bookshelf before a number of other books.

Aug 18, 2024

Dale Stromberg

Dale Stromberg

he/him

Book Author

Castigator of texts and poor devil of letters. Unobtrusive immigrant. Proud papa. He/him. Author of MAEJ, GYRE, and MELANCHOLIC PARABLES.

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