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Fantasy & Science Fiction

Dark • Western • Tribal • Steampunk

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About the Author

evan austin writes Fantasy and Science Fiction from his home in California. When he's not tuning pianos professionally, he's probably drawing/designing, making music, or acting in a local theatre production.

His first novel, It Uncoils, is a dark shifter fantasy about complicated relationships with paternity, religion, and sexuality, and about finding one's place in the world. The sequel, Hall of Therion, is about doing good things for the wrong reasons, the tragedy of self-loathing, and the power of choice. He also writes poetry with elemental/nature and erotic themes. He is 1/3 of a band called I've Seen Better Elephants.

Active Works in Progress:

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It Uncoils

With the outside world in a shambles as a global illness burns through the Huma population, Biron and the other orphans on Lord Chernya's ranch estate are lucky survivors. But when Biron discovers that he's exactly the kind of monster that caused the pandemic in the first place, he is torn between protecting those he cares for by running away, or doing so by staying and eradicating his own kind.

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Whitearrow’s Curse

Everyone in the tribe blames All The Egrets Are Dead for the tragedy that saw all of their hunters and warriors killed, even though she was a newborn baby the night it happened. She wants to prove herself and break free of the stigma, and the perfect opportunity comes when their isolated existence is breached by round-eared builders and their army of strange machines.

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Hall of Therion

A popular and eccentric religious leader seems to be making life better for Northgate's Wur population. But as they are moved into a new walled-in and river-adjacent community, legends resurface of a hidden hall containing genocidal magic. Now Wur and 'Man alike hunt for The Imortel, who can either find it or seal it away for good.

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The Last Sial of Enjin

Whitney has been training his whole life to eventually become caretaker of the Silon, huge machines posted all over the planet of Enjin, whose precise clockwork must be constantly regulated in order to keep the planet's rhythms in balance. But "someday" comes too soon when the current caretaker AND Whitney's father, who developed the Silon, are slain by disgruntled factions. Now Whitney is in a race to keep the planet together AND discover why things aren't as they seem.