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Science fiction · English
Cade woke up dead. Hard science fiction with a cosmic-horror edge — book one of the Edenrise trilogy, where humanity's survival is somebody else's entertainment.
published · read chapter one · on Amazon →
Thriller · English
Detective Jimmy Coldpay keeps losing hours — and waking up to case work more brilliant than anything he remembers doing. Whatever is filling in the gaps, it isn't therapy.
published · read chapter one · on Amazon →
Techno-noir · English
In the South African Karoo, an engineer pulls something impossible from a core sample and builds a lamp that runs all night and costs nothing. A Norwegian geophysicist arrives carrying his dead uncle's notebooks — and the reason it was buried twelve thousand years ago. Every measurement says the lamps are probably safe. Probably.
coming soon · 19 chapters complete, final rewrite
Field guide · English
Surviving modern infrastructure without losing your mind. Thirty years of Linux, datacenters, and search engines, distilled into what actually matters — and when to ignore all of it.
in progress · 15 chapters drafted
Roman · Norsk
En episodisk oppvekstroman fra Nord-Norge. Små øyeblikk i egnarbua vekker minnene som formet fortelleren — fra Tromsø og Lenangen, der latteren og alvoret aldri gikk hver for seg.
under arbeid · arbeidstittel
Systems engineer by trade, Northern Norwegian by origin. Thirty years of Linux, datacenters, and search engines — alltheweb.com, Yahoo, FAST, Microsoft, Q-Free — now also writing books: two published novels, a field guide to surviving modern infrastructure, and a Norwegian one about growing up untangling fishing lines in an egnarbua in Lyngen.
Also writes about LLMs, guitar tabs, and whatever else needed building this month on the tech blog. Code lives at github.com/aweussom.