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Novelist · Literary Fiction
My novels are ironic, witty, and fast-paced, featuring ensemble casts of people talking to people.
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Coming soon: a doctor has a unique cure for mental illness. But the medicine has a side-effect...

Rome, Spring 1944. As the Allied armies march on Rome, Germans, spies, con artists, deserters, and partisans act out their fantasies.

An AI project gets out of control (surprise, surprise). The style is experimental, please check the sample before buying.
Robert Edens is trying to prove that people still read elegant, ironic literary fiction.
He lives in Austin, Texas.
— Robert Edens...Edens drops a sprawling cast of soldiers, spies, deserters, and ideologues into a city coming gloriously apart at the seams. The novel runs almost entirely on dialogue, and it moves fast — I finished it in under three days.
The wit is top-tier and reminded me of the Marx Brothers if they were dropped into a war zone.
It’s rare to find a debut that handles this kind of high-stakes historical setting with such a sharp, vaudevillian wit.
For readers who appreciate experimental storytelling and strong conceptual science fiction, 21 Instances is an unforgettable experience. A brave, original, and brilliantly imaginative novel that deserves every one of its five stars.
The stream of consciousness style with its minimal punctuation gives the book an intense, immersive feel that perfectly matches the unpredictability of artificial intelligence.
Paints a very dystopian picture for our future and forces the question of what happiness truly is.
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