Glitch

by Brian Evenson

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A mind-bending science fiction novella about identity, consciousness, memory, and the horror of surviving yourself, GLITCH explores what happens when immortality becomes a prison, and when your own mind becomes your worst enemy.

Genres: Science Fiction

77 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 4, 2026

About the author

Brian Evenson is an American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction, some of the latter being published under B. K. Evenson.

Reviews

[Curtis]

The book you write after watching Black Mirror: White Christmas and deciding that you want to do something similar.

[David Agranoff]

An absolute masterpiece of a SF horror novella from Pink Beam press. Written to be a part of the PBP launch at the Philip K Dick Fest where Brian was a guest of honor. Brian nailed the PKD vibes with lots of Ellison I have no mouth vibes too. Full review and podcast coverage on the way.

[Chris Powers]

Brian Evenson is a master of short fiction. Glitch is no exception to that. A mind bending look at consciousness through a modern eye. I really don't want to say more than that. It's short, it's Evenson, go read it.

I doubt this would be your intro to Evenson. If it is welcome to one of the greatest speculative fiction writers living, and go read Last Days.

[Luke Dylan Ramsey]

Read my review here: https://www.justkeepupmagazine.com/th...

[Ali]

A pretty interesting concept. Obviously this is sci-fi fantasy but I still found it a bit too outlandish to be fully pulled in by it