Unveiling the Exciting New Luna Novella 2027 by Seb Doubinsky
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We are delighted to announce the exciting new speculative novella by Seb Doubinsky, The Machine, for the award-winning Luna Novella 2027 series! Luna Press has acquired EWR from Matt Bialer, of New York Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Inc.
Seb has been in the Luna family since 2021, contributing a paper to the award-winning CfP Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction. We are therefore delighted to be working together again!
The Machine is planned to be released in February 2027.
“As E.M. Forster asked what happens when The Machine Stops in the early 20th century, Doubinsky’s documentary novella brilliantly evokes the (t)errors of (un)freedom in the early 21st. Neither prophecy nor paranoia - because it is all too real - The Machine is a schizoanalytic break down of the cybernetic state of art, love, conspiracies, academia, and late-capitalist meaning-making. We are all implicated in the plot. Doubinsky is a master of fictional truth-telling.”
- James Reich, author of Skinship.
Seb on the novella:
The Machine was inspired by the world we live in today, and where every morning to wake up in an ever-changing dystopia. I wanted to capture and illustrate the general state of mind merging out of the Covid isolation, authoritarian and populist politics and a completely shattered economy and world-order. Like us, my characters are all impacted by the daily bad news and try to make the best of it given the situation -- one way or another. This novella is thus a darkly humorous tribute to human resilience, intelligence and, last but not the least, resistance.
About Seb:
Seb Doubinsky is an established bilingual novelist and poet. He writes speculative fiction and his dystopian novel, Missing Signal, published by Meerkat Press, won the Bronze Foreword Reviews Award in the Best Science-Fiction Novel category in 2018. His works have been published in the United States, the UK, Australia, France, Spain and Denmark. He is an associate professor in the French department of the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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The Machine will be out in Winter 2027. Follow the progress in our newsletter!
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