Thomas Watson

by Thomas Watson

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If not for the intervention of the insectoid beings called the T’lack, the Faceless War would have ended with the extinction of Humanity and its Sibling Species. That intervention came at a great cost for the T’lack. No one knows or understands Humanity’s debt to the T’lack better than Jan Costa, who paid his own terrible price at the end of that war.

Now the T’lack are themselves in grave danger, facing a devastating civil war between rival factions and threatened by a mysterious race of beings on the far side of T’lack space.

Jan Costa leads a multi-species expeditionary force into the unknown, seeking to save his alien friends both from themselves and the new threat they have aroused. What he discovers out beyond the frontier will change everything, with the very existence of the T’lack hanging in the balance.

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Thomas Watson

I've always been a storyteller, and very early in my life found the written word to be my preferred method for telling tales. I grew up enjoying words for their own sake, with some of my earliest memories being of family members reading to me and teaching me to both read and write. Most of my childhood was spent in houses full of books, and reading inspired writing. The experience of reading stories, of having feelings and images conjured from...

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All That Bedevils Us

If not for the intervention of the insectoid beings called the T’lack, the Faceless War would have ended with the extinction of Humanity and its Sibling Species. That intervention came at a great cost for the T’lack. No one knows or understands Humanity’s debt to the T’lack better than Jan Costa, who paid his own terrible price at the end of...

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The Gryphon Stone

Of all the worlds in the multiverse, Adrathea is the last David Render would willingly revisit. What happened there broke his heart and drove him to retire from the UN Multiverse Survey. To hang up his sword, and leave the service of the Alvehn.

But now Adrathea is in peril. An Alvehn device known as an empathy bridge – called the Gryphon Stone...

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The Lesson of Almiraya Bay

Sequel to The Gryphon Stone. David Render’s travels through the multiverse have come to an end. Married to Sidraytha of the Isles, he is now the father of two children. The Isles of Wulde are his home, and the Islanders have adopted him as one of their own. His life in the service of the Alvehn, in their endless war against the barbaric Moj, is...

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War of the Second Iteration

The Luck of Han'anga, Founders' Effect , The Plight of the Eli'ahtna, The Courage to Accept, and 2 more

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179 Degrees From Now: Four Stories from Just Past the Edge

The Process: Nine Essays on the Experience of Writing Fiction & “Muse” A Short Story

The Soul of Wit

Chance Encounters: Three Short Stories, 179 Degrees From Now: Four Stories from Just Past the Edge, and The Process: Nine Essays on the Experience of Writing Fiction & “Muse” A Short Story

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Other Writing

Second Chance: A Tale of the Second Iteration

While developing the War of the Second Iteration series, ideas came to me for other tales set in that imagined future universe. A couple of them came to life. One became a standalone tale, its plot and characters having no role to play in the series. The other became something very different. In the short story Second Chance I found myself developing a character who would go on to play pivotal role in War of the Second Iteration. He was too interesting a character to not use there. And when...

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June 1, 2025

Lucky 13

So, about June…

Thirteen years ago this month I published The Luck of Han’anga, my first self-published novel. In the years that have passed since then, others have followed. I...