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Writes hard science fiction
Ivar Halstrom writes hard science fiction about people, machines, and the cost of a reply. The books are researched to the point of stubbornness: real instruments, real logistics, real law, and one clean speculative idea followed honestly. The Oxygen Wound is the first of them.
Biography
Ivar Halstrom writes near-future survival fiction about people operating machinery at the edge of what machinery can do. The books are researched to the point of stubbornness: real instruments, real logistics, real law, and one clean speculative idea followed honestly to wherever it goes. They tend to be about communication under a hard bandwidth limit: what can be said, what it costs to say it, and who is still listening. The Oxygen Wound is the first of them.
What you can count on
Real instruments, real logistics, real law. If a number is on the page, it was checked.
A single premise per book, followed honestly to wherever it goes, and no second miracle to get out of it.
Every institution behaves reasonably, and that is the problem. Nobody in these books is wrong on purpose.
First-person narrators who operate machinery at the edge of what machinery can do, and keep the numbers.
What can be said under a hard bandwidth limit, what it costs to say it, and who is still listening.
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They drilled two thousand one hundred and thirty-four metres into a lake that had been sealed since the Miocene. At 03:52 on the first night, it answered.
Contemporary forbidden romance
“The kind of forbidden romance you're not supposed to be reading at your desk.”
Psychological thriller · literary mystery
“The safest place is the one you should fear most.”
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