AWARDS ELIGIBILITY · WORKS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2026
NEXUS UPLINK

Awards eligibility: 2026

If you are nominating for the 2027 Hugo Awards, these are my works first published in 2026. Each volume’s first three chapters are free to read here, with links throughout to the archive of images and records behind the story.

The four published volumes of the Mobius Nexus Cycle
BEST SERIES
The Mobius Nexus Cycle
NEXUS UPLINK PRESS · FOUR VOLUMES · ABOUT 478,000 WORDS · LATEST VOLUMES 2026

Literary science fiction about consciousness, consent and contact. The first four of ten planned volumes. Start with The Mobius Nexus, Chapters 1–3 free.

“It treats hybrid consciousness as a hard, painful choice rather than a shiny upgrade”

Literary Titan · 5 stars
BEST NOVEL
The Mobius Fragments
BOOK TWO · NEXUS UPLINK PRESS · 2026 · ABOUT 134,000 WORDS
The Mobius Wake
BOOK THREE · NEXUS UPLINK PRESS · 2026 · ABOUT 122,300 WORDS
The Mobius Keeping
BOOK FOUR · NEXUS UPLINK PRESS · 2026 · ABOUT 110,500 WORDS

The Mobius Nexus, Book One, was first published in 2025 and is not eligible for Best Novel this year.

READING COPIES

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