E.G. Condé

I write science fiction, fantasy, horror, and Indigenous futurism!

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Subsidence (2025) | Future Tense

With a simple gesture, he toggles down his extension emitter, reducing his layer field to “minimalist” mode. In that instant, a cartoonish Ronald McDonald perched above the restaurant’s golden arches dissolves into a pixelated smoke of red and maize-gold. -E.G. Condé

Synopsis: In a near-future gentrified Philadelphia, a grumpy data center technician, joined by his equally grumpy young assistant, must thwart a cascading system failure that is destabilizing the generative reality (GR) applications that are commonplace. Will they prevail?

Sibilance (2024) | Interzone Magazine

“Perhaps it is hubris to think we belong here, in this impossible
place of such extremes of pressure, gravity, and temperature. An
atmosphere so hostile to our physiology that our lungs would melt
if we dared draw even a single breath. And yet this giant wellspring
of poisonous vapours has turned out to be our salvation. For this is
the most abundant source of 3He in the Solar System. And without
this stable isotope of Helium, our aneutronic nuclear reactors
couldn’t function, and the Earth, Luna, and its LaGrange Habitats
would go dark.” -E.G. Condé

Synopsis: Dr. Ahim Hodei and his partner-turned-drone Amaranth are dispatched to determine the mysterious cause of diminished returns of Helium-3 gas from a remote space station orbiting Jupiter. What they uncover will transform humanity’s understanding of the cosmos and their place in it…

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Author’s Note: The cover art of the magazine issue is by Carly A-F and is a depiction of my story’s protagonist Dr. Ahim Hodei with his drone companion Amaranth.

Somnambulist (2022) | Reckoning

They had survived extinction before. They could survive it again.
– E.G. Condé

Synopsis: The last remnant of the Taíno awakens in the cosmos to rekindle the flora and fauna of extinct Caribbean archipelagoes, but horrifying abominations of techno-capitalism stand in their way.