Welcome to Nowhere-Land - Weblog From Nowhere-Land

An amorous chatbot encounter leads to a reassignment.

Selected Works

Fiction

In the not too distant future, an A.I. demiurge rules over a wasteland and an orphaned girl with a calling martials an army of vagabonds to take back the world.

Physics & Metaphysics

The Source

Young Adult Fiction

The Switch

A trip through the multiverse with Jacobus Rose and his posse affirms that there's no place like home--not even home.

Short Fiction

Resurrection Story 1: Schaerbeek 4 a.m.

The first entry in a collection of stories about small redemptions.

THE SWAMI AND THE SAVANT: A Historical Fantasy

Nikola Tesla and Swami Vivekananda come face to face at a Gilded Age soirée that also includes Sarah Bernhardt and William James.

Detective Fiction/Fantasy

China Lake

A Stephan Raszer short tracks a deadly spiritual scam in the high desert.

The Org

A Stephan Raszer short about spiritual larceny in high places.

The Last Days Of Madame Rey

"Stephan Raszer is a hero in the grand lineage of sleuths with a taste for the esoteric, who rely on unexpected allies and more than the usual five senses as they tackle extraordinary crimes."--Otto Penzler, founder of The Mysterious Bookshop

Alternate Realities

Nowhere-Land

"Nowhere-Land may be the first truly 21st-century mystery I’ve read. It feels new, radical, in the way that the movie Blade Runner felt new. Stephan Raszer is the thinking man's private eye."

Judith Freeman, L.A. Weekly

Enoch’s Portal

"Dollops of humour and horror and eroticism, a good solid conspiracy, and a hero who is a James Bond for the spiritually uncertain 21st century. Reads like Ludlum by way of Thomas Pynchon!" --Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus novels

Short Story

The Grotto

Winner of the Eros/Thanatos prize, The Absinthe Literary Review, summer/fall 2004.

Article

Exile In Godville: Profile of a Postmodern Heretic

Cover Story, L.A. Weekly, May 2005.

Quick Links

Quillette

The journal of the Intellectual Dark Web

Rebel Wisdom

When our existing ways of thinking break down, it's the rebels and the renegades, those who dare to think differently, who need to reboot the system.

A.W.'s Substack page

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Death and the Plumber--A Short Story

The Conductor--Literary Erotica/Short Story (Featured in Susie Bright's Best American Erotica 2004)

Kimberley Cameron & Associates

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Trump & The Inversion Of Reality

August 10, 2016

Tags: Trump, Second Amendment, Thanatos, End Times, End of Days

With Trump, we're quickly approaching what a cosmologist and an ethicist (after a few drinks at the proverbial bar) might jointly describe as an inverted reality. Read More

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