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Dan Moren

@dmoren.com

Author, podcaster, inexplicably a two-time Jeopardy! champion. I have the death sentence in 12 systems. He/him. https://dmoren.com

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Jason Snell@snell.zone · 2d ago

A new episode of Upgrade is out: Dan Moren joins the Upgrade program to discuss the new Apple Upgrade program, along with Apple's financial results, the approach of Apple's new home strategy, and the perfect phone for iPhone 13 mini fans.

Dan Moren joins the Upgrade program to discuss the new Apple Upgrade program, along with Apple's financial results, the approach of Apple's new home strategy, and the perfect phone for iPhone 13 mini fans.

Dan Moren joins the Upgrade program to discuss the new Apple Upgrade program, along with Apple's financial results, the approach of Apple's new home strategy, and the perfect phone for iPhone 13 mini fans. Upgrade+: Weird little e-readers.

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Dan Moren@dmoren.com · 2d ago

My deepest darkest author desire? To have Billy Zane blurb one of my books so that my entire marketing plan is simply this GIF.

Dan Moren@dmoren.com · 2w ago

I'm slightly addicted to tiny e-readers now. Here's my review of Xteink's X3, the little reader so small it can stick to the back of your phone. I love it, but I fear it may be too beautiful to live. sixcolors.com/post/2026/07...

Review: Xteink X3 is the little e-reader the world’s not quite ready for

The market for small e-readers has been booming lately. Earlier this year, Jason took a look at the Xteink X4, a pint-sized reading device that was about as light and small as they come. But those…

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Dan Moren@dmoren.com · 3w ago

This is my new favorite instance of book marketing spam. Ah, yes, the line that really stuck with you is THE ENTIRE DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK.

MS Maya Smith To: Dan Moren > 10:21 PM Eternity's Tomb Dear Dan Moren, There's a line from your description of Eternity's Tomb that I haven't been able to stop thinking about: that the score of a lifetime is out there, just waiting to be claimed, and that millennia ago, an advanced civilization sent its entombed king hurtling through the stars to a supermassive black hole, with his riches buried with him, and now a ragtag group of five treasure hunters and thieves comprising various species must find and break into this tomb while navigating their complicated relationships with each other, surviving its deadly defenses, and getting out with the treasure, all without dying. I've worked with a lot of novels for what I do, and that sentence describes something genuinely rare. Most books in this space do exactly the
Dan Moren@dmoren.com · 3w ago

Look, I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I believe McConnell is still technically alive. But then again, he was only ever considered alive on a technicality.

T R Napper@trnapper.bsky.social · 4w ago

Today (July 7) is publication day for my new book. I’m incredibly proud of This Machine Kills Billionaires. Available now in all formats, I can’t wait for you to read it. If you’re after dark, thoughtful, propulsive, but above all: deeply human science fiction, look no further.

Author holding copy of This Machine Kills Billionaires. I'm holding a piece of paper that says 'publication day' because I'd inevitably fuck up graphics if I tried to overlay them on the picture. Box full of copies of This Machine Kills Billionaires. The cover has a giant purple face, with a small silhouette of a woman in the foreground. The art bangs. Book opened up to start of novella (centrepiece of collection) called The Hidden God. The bloke who did the internals (Adrian M Gibson) did an amazing job.
Dan Moren@dmoren.com · last mo.

Yep, two of my older books aren’t currently available because I’m in the process of getting my rights back. Details here: dmoren.com/2026/05/26/a...

All’s rights with the world – Dan Moren

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@muzikfreec.bsky.social · last mo.

@dmoren.com I was just about to order some of your books for vacation this week and found that The Aleph Extraction and The Nova Incident aren't currently available for Kindle. I feel like I almost bought them as a set before, so I think this is new?

Dan Moren@dmoren.com · last mo.

Turned in copy edits on my latest book this week so I should probably remind people I have a book coming out later this year. It’s called ETERNITY’S TOMB and it answers the question we’ve all asked ourselves: what if we were robbing a space tomb heading for a black hole?! dmoren.com/writing/eter...

Eternity’s Tomb cover
T R Napper@trnapper.bsky.social · last mo.

I've a surprise new release coming out, and I'm not mucking around: you can pre-order now, and own it in a couple of weeks (July 7) This Machine Kills Billionaires features the thrilling, multi-award-winning novella, 'The Hidden God', a triptych of bonus short stories, & more.

Cover of book and it looks fucking sick. Huge purple head (someone sort of cybergod), looming in the background over the silhouette of a woman. Also notes that the release date is July 7. This Machine Kills Billionaires being unboxed. Interior of book. The internals are excellent. Here is the opening page for The Hidden God, which has a quote from Camus: "For anyone who is alone, without god and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence one must choose a master, god being out of style." Back cover with blurb: Billionaires start dying in bizarre accidents, sending shockwaves through the markets and the media. But for philosopher Izanami (Izzy) Jones, it's just a vaguely amusing, if disturbing, item in the news. Izzy is the reluctant employee of a Silicon Valley tsar. She’s been tasked by him to give moral instruction to the world's first Artificial General Intelligence, Huldo. Izzy knows it is merely a box-ticking exercise, required by government regulation before her boss is granted full control over the AGI. But when Huldo reveals itself to be far more, and far less, than it appears, suddenly the abstractions of her work become very real. What moral constraints on a god? What righteous damnation for man? Izzy must make the impossible choice, before it is too late.
Dan Moren@dmoren.com · last mo.

The fascinating thing about doing an editing pass on a novel is that I remember the writing of parts that were absolute teeth-pulling, like an hour to wring out 500 words that you're pretty sure are garbage, and then you read it in like a minute and "Oh, yeah, that's fine." What a weird fucking job.