Garbage Day Earth: A Satirical Sci-Fi Novella
Available on June 15th, 2025, on Amazon
What’s this about?
In the grand cosmic scheme of things, Earth wasn't even supposed to exist. Just another illegal dump site where some cut-rate hauler decided proper waste disposal fees weren't worth paying. Unfortunately for everyone involved, that waste had spent 4.5 billion years developing opinions, philosophy, and reality television shows. Now, SCRUB, the universe's most mathematically gifted garbage collector, had finally arrived to file the paperwork.
What to expect?
Neurotic AIs, self-absorbed tech billionaires, social media madness, posh aliens, trigger-happy generals, and… dinosaurs. Well, sort of.
Who is this for?
You love irreverent humor and existential stakes. You like Douglas Adams, John Scalzi, or Terry Pratchett. Then you could give it a try.
What’s next?
The chapters I shared on Substack have been unpublished due to Amazon KDP policy. On June 15th, you can find the novella live on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8BPWF7N
Thanks! Yes, it's finished (mostly), so this is my first attempt at serializing something before releasing it. Mainly wrote in a different genre before, where the audience wasn't so community-oriented.
Day-by-day? Whoa. If you do that, count me in as moral support.
From the first paragraph, I was thinking "Hitchiker's." Nice.
So at first I thought you were giving yourself a writing challenge, but if you're planning a release in June, you must already have it all written and you're just doling it out.
Might be fun to do something like this as a live day-by-day pantser challenge. Fun, but scary. I might try that.