Fiction

Joseph W.D. Morton is the author of two novels.

The Forever Reich is a science-fiction time-travel action romp that throws modern characters into a collision with history and alternate futures while tackling the time-honoured question: What would happen if we went back in time and killed Hitler?

The Dominion War is an epic fantasy of war, faith and power set in a world where the conflicts of gods have very human consequences.

The Dominion War is the first novel in the ongoing Chronicles of Mythras, an epic fantasy series following characters caught in struggles that stretch across kingdoms, religions and generations. The series explores what happens when ordinary human loyalties collide with forces vast enough to reshape civilizations—and what those struggles demand from the people trapped inside them.

His fiction ranges across fantasy, science fiction and horror, but tends to return to the same territory: people caught inside forces much larger than themselves and the choices they make when easy answers disappear.

Essays

Joseph writes Ink & Ambition, an ongoing collection of essays about writing, culture, technology and the occasionally absurd experience of trying to build a creative life.

The essays occupy the territory between his fiction and journalism. They allow room for argument, autobiography, curiosity and the occasional bad idea pursued far enough to discover whether there was a good idea hiding underneath it.

Journalism

Joseph is a former staff writer with Mugglehead and Equity.Guru, where he reported on mining, critical minerals, energy, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and emerging technologies.

His journalism follows many of the same questions that animate his fiction from the opposite direction. Technology changes. Industries rise and fall. New discoveries create possibilities that would have seemed impossible a generation earlier. Behind all of it are people deciding what to build, what to pursue and what the future should look like.

Before turning to journalism and fiction professionally, Joseph earned a degree in communications from Simon Fraser University, and a print journalism diploma from Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario.

Elsewhere

When he isn't writing, Joseph can usually be found reading science fiction and fantasy, playing billiards, various roleplaying and video games, and probably arguing with himself about some obscure question that will become an essay.

Joseph lives and works in New Westminster, BC.

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