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M. Darusha Wehm

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in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Website

http://darusha.ca

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

William Gibson, Octavia Butler, Iain M. Banks, Greg Egan

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February 2010

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M. Darusha Wehm is a Nebula Award winner and Sir Julius Vogel Award winner, the author of Hamlet, Prince of Robots, the game The Martian Job, and over a dozen other novels. Their short fiction has been published widely and their poetry has been a finalist for the Rhysling Award.

Writing as Darusha Wehm, their mainstream books include the Devi Jones’ Locker YA series and the humorous coming-of-age novel The Home for Wayward Parrots.

Darusha is a member of the Many Worlds writing collective and they are a fifth of the writing team Darkly Lem, the author of The Formation Saga which starts with Transmentation | Transience.

Originally from Canada, Darusha lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand after several years sailing the ...more

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Based on the assumption that Beautiful Red and the Andersson Dexter series occur in the same universe: will you continue exploring that wonderful cyberpunk dystopia and from the same and different perspectives?

M. Darusha Wehm The short answer is "I dunno."

I have written a couple of shorter pieces in that world: Fire. Escape. and The Interview. It's an interesting place, an…moreThe short answer is "I dunno."

I have written a couple of shorter pieces in that world: Fire. Escape. and The Interview. It's an interesting place, and a world I really love, but I feel like I've spent a lot of time there. And after The Beauty of Our Weapons, I really felt like I needed to give Dex and co. a break for a while.

I'm enjoying the other projects I've been working on, but there's a definite possibility I might rejoin that world. The main obstacle I see is that real life technological changes are rendering a lot of the cyberpunk elements of that world into banal reality, so that could put a cork in the whole thing.

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

M. Darusha Wehm I'm not sure I really believe in writers' block, but I definitely go through waves of creativity and output.

I'm fond of using prompts and randomness t…moreI'm not sure I really believe in writers' block, but I definitely go through waves of creativity and output.

I'm fond of using prompts and randomness to help me over a writing slump. I have a set of "writers' dice" with concepts printed on them that can help generate plot points, and I sometimes use images as inspiration. Mostly, though, it's about carving out time and telling myself that I'm going to write now, whether I'm keen or not.

There's no magic muse, it's just work. Sometimes the work feel more like play, but it's industry not fairy dust that makes it happen.
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Average rating: 3.79 · 1,737 ratings · 418 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hamlet, Prince of Robots 3.32 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beautiful Red 3.75 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Self Made (Andersson Dexter, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Act of Will (Andersson Dexter, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beauty of Our Weapons (Andersson Dexter #3) 4.26 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shores of a New Horizon: A Terraforming Mars Novel 3.63 avg rating — 35 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Qubit Zirconium: A KeyForge Novel 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children of Arkadia 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voyage of the White Cloud 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Retaking Elysium 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Transmentation | Transience has won the Manly Wade Wellman Award!

I am absolutely delighted to share that Transmentation | Transience by Darkly Lem has won the 2026 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy!

While I am not a resident of North Carolina, three of the five darklies are (Josh Eure, Craig Lincoln and Ben Murphy) and the fourth, Cadwell Turnbull, had been both a student and faculty at North Carolina State University.

The members of Darkly Lem stand in a field. Left to right: Ben Murphy, Darusha Wehm, Cadwell Turnbull, Josh Eure, Craig Lincoln.

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M. Darusha Wehm wrote a new blog post Transmentation \| Transience has won the Manly Wade Wellman Award! I am absolutely delighted to share that Transmentation \| Transience by Darkly Lem has won the 2026 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Read more of this blog post »
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“He is malfunctioning, It's true. It's a shame that it's true, but it is. The question is what is the cause of the effect, or rather, the defect.”
― M. Darusha Wehm, Hamlet, Prince of Robots

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