New novella out today. It’s called “The Floating Republic” and it’s almost a space opera, about people stuck on a tiny mining colony for decades while a very long, pointless war rages all around them. As with a lot of my work, it owes something to Canadian literature, particularly the journals of fur traders in the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Northwest Company, trying to make sense of a world radically different than the one to which they were born. The novella is also about the second generation of settlers– those born far from a “home” they have never seen, and how they try to imagine belonging. You can read it here.