Matthew Buscemi Books

Initiate Le discovers a radical new philosophy, only to be drawn into a simmering social conflict about to boil over. Le should be happy. He is about to graduate high school, his marks in math and science are beyond exemplary, and his boyfriend is a rising star within the Resurgence. But try as he might, Le can't shake the feeling that his life is off the rails. One evening, he stumbles upon Initiate Stok breaking into a zone, one of many dangerous, cordoned-off regions of the city. Against all reason, Le follows Stok inside, and what he discovers will change both him and the course of his entire civilization. Equal parts love story, adventure, and social philosophy, Alterra is the story of three young men striving to reunite two societies that are, quite literally, universes apart.

The Palípolian archipelago is a world of poets, warriors, philosophers, engineers, and wanderers. Arkh Makhaino yearns to leave his island home of Khatap for the larger and busier mainland city of Épanngel, but worries that the Shipwrights' Guild there will not accept him. Arkh struggles to resolve his lingering self-doubt while arduously waiting for a reply. In other parts of Palípoli: a young man seeks a singular experience in the desert; an explorer's return causes chaos for his guild and ideological upheaval for his city; what should have been a simple voyage for a young priestess turns into a nightmare at sea; a book from the Dark Archive is able to solve a philosopher's plight-at a cost; and a young poet sets out on a journey to meet a kindred writer who once lived in his very home.

Nel Hanima is trapped in someone or something's dream, and it will take more than a pinch to wake the dreamer. By the end of the twenty-first century, the world has arrived at an uneasy stability in the wake of ecological chaos and political upheaval. Nel Hanima lives in a post-restoration Seattle, where restriction rather than freedom is the new social norm. Feeling helpless and weary, Nel falls asleep in his apartment and awakens in the bizarre City of Nowhere, a place of strange creatures, rampant paradoxes, and malleable physical laws. He must team up with outcasts from parallel realities of his city if he is to find a way home. And along the way, he might just discover the meaning and purpose his life has thus far lacked.

A novice in the Order of the Seventh Recursion is forced to question his faith in the Almighty Algorithm and its Only API. Grigori was surprised to be chosen to join the Order. Although he struggled to make a place for himself in monastic life, he managed over the years to build a reputation as a solid initiate who committed only quality code into the Holy Repository. When a strange man breaks into the chapel, Grigori's entire world is turned inside out. Inexplicably, this stranger can access his neural computer, and the things he tells Grigori call into question the very foundation of the Order's beliefs. Grigori is left with no choice but to suss out which is his deceiver-the stranger or his Order. Potentially betrayed by the faith he swore allegiance to, he utilizes in his quest the only stable foundation remaining to him: his own logic and reason.

A journey to collect books becomes a race against time to escape an inwardly collapsing artificial universe.??In the far future, possessing literature or philosophy of any kind is strictly forbidden. Mira Rous works for the Reconstructionists, whose goal is to rebuild Earth's library of classics by harvesting similar works from parallel universes.??The job is slow and dangerous, but it is proceeding well enough until a scan of a parallel world reveals something altogether new: a country whose space is not on a parallel Earth, but is instead carved out of probability itself.??There Mira discovers literary riches beyond her wildest dreams. But when a freak occurrence destabilizes the artificial universes, retrieving their books turns into a life-threatening endeavor, both on account of the rapidly deteriorating physical spaces and government secrets that some would prefer stay buried.