DEI at WARP 10!

Blazing Reader,

Sarah Hoyt's No Man's Land, is a harrowing tale of DEI at WARP 10! — an interstellar, far-future novel about mad geneticists who thought they could eliminate inequality by making everyone hermaphroditic.

Now you understand the title. No men. No women. No kidding.

But, as the book blurb says: "They were wrong. Catastrophically wrong."

And as with my novel, All the Humans Are Sleeping, No Man's Land has been nominated for the 2026 Prometheus Award for pro-liberty fantastical fiction.

No Man's Land is Sarah Hoyt's fortieth novel. 

All the Humans Are Sleeping is my second. 

Needless to say, Hoyt has been arranging letters into stories a lot longer than I have. And, even more impressive, English is her second language.

In an interview with The Libertarian Futurist Society, she said that by age sixty-one, she "was burned out and almost at the point of quitting fiction." But she had this one story that she'd thought up when she was fourteen, and she realized, "I didn’t want to die with my first world unwritten."

So before quitting she decided she'd write one last novel.

"I’m very glad I did," she says, "Among other things, it seems to have cured the burnout.”

Which is a good thing, since this three-part novel is part of a longer series — the sequel to No Man's Land, coming out in the fall, is called Orphans in the Sky.

You can read more about No Man's Land, and the 2026 Prometheus Awards on the Prometheus blog or purchase a copy here.

—John C.A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.