The novels · Adrian Anderson
Eight stories.
One universe.
Different eras, different lives and different ways into INDEX. These eight manuscripts are complete; the books are not yet published. Explore by the story that interests you. There is no mandatory reading order.
MELEE is the intended first release, currently aiming for 2027. No specific release date or publishing route is confirmed.
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Completed manuscript · Intended first release
MELEE
London, 1888 · Historical speculative fiction
A battered father, a frightened city and a circus arriving beneath the gaslight. William Fitch’s story brings crime, family and physical consequence into Victorian London.
Targeting publication in 2027. No specific release date or publishing route is confirmed.
More completed manuscripts
Different lives. More to discover.
Completed manuscript
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Age of sail · Historical adventure
EXILE
A grounded pirate ship. A captain whose reputation no longer holds his crew together. On deck and ashore, survival asks more of people than an extraordinary Index.
Completed manuscript
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Geneva · Prison-break thriller
HEIST
Trix enters Europe’s most secure prison with a backpack, a stopwatch and a plan. Security systems, human habits and an unconventional crew make every second count.
Completed manuscript
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2030 · Speculative romance
SPACE/TIME
Nina has a sealed Box. Theo has a Key. Two apparently unremarkable Indexes draw two lives into a love story where distance and time become far more than obstacles.
Completed manuscript
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2014 · Music and human drama
ORCHESTRA
Behind the applause are strained hands, hard rehearsals and lives that refuse to stay offstage. An orchestra brings extraordinary manifestations and ordinary human relationships into the same room.
Completed manuscript
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Pittsburgh, 2020 · Survival horror
BERZERK
An ordinary family afternoon becomes a struggle to survive as infection spreads through a city. Finding shelter is only the beginning; keeping people together takes more than force.
Completed manuscript
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1916 · War and survival
MORTAL
On a battlefield of mud, wire and machine guns, survival is measured in the distance to the next patch of cover. Courage, judgement and ordinary tools still matter.
Completed manuscript
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Sydney, 1989 · Crime and identity
DUALITY
Benji Lawson wants to become a journalist. In a city of bills, ambition and competing versions of the truth, a young man with a Mask must decide what deserves to be seen.
Development
More stories taking shape.
Projects in development, separate from the eight completed manuscripts above.
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In development
FANDOM
At a comic convention, twelve cosplayers enter a tournament where elaborate costumes, foam weapons and fan knowledge turn fiction into competition.
Then a real emergency strikes.
Nobody has time to get out of costume, and the people behind the masks must discover what they're capable of when the stakes stop being pretend.
No publication date announced.
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In development
ORIGIN
A world is dying, and a desperate mission carries its last hope into the unknown.
But the spacecraft is hiding something, and its crew begin questioning who — or what — is guiding them.
ORIGIN is the story of how Indexes began. A science-fiction mystery about survival, creation and the choices that change everything.
No publication date announced.
A world to explore.
Discover the idea connecting the stories, or meet the author behind them.