Interested in the rules.
More interested
in who they cost.

Arthur Iverson

Arthur Iverson writes speculative fiction about systems, secrets, and the difficult bargains people make to survive them.

The books move between dark fantasy, impossible mysteries, uncanny suspense, and the intimate decisions of a working life. Across those settings, the question returns: what happens to people when a system starts treating them as something less than human?

In The Names We Burn, that system holds a person’s very name. In The Distance Office, it changes the space between people. In The Last Causeway, an old connection to the mainland carries a warning from the future.