ORIGINAL WORKS
The Escher Man (2024). Available in all good bookstores, and online. Link to US retailers here.
Ghost of the Neon God (2024). Available in all good bookstores, and online. Link to US retailers here.
36 Streets (2022). Available in all good bookstores; the places you can buy it online are listed here.
Neon Leviathan (2020). Collected Stories. All of the places you can buy it online are listed here.
TIE-IN FICTION
Aliens: Bishop (2023). Available in all good book stores. All the online options are listed here.
Signed editions are currently available for Neon Leviathan, 36 Streets, Ghost of the Neon God, and The Escher Man. See bottom of the page for details.
Praise for The Escher Man
“An incisive and self-assured voice in near-future fiction. One of those writers with an effortless grasp of the highs and lows of human nature. Always a joy to read.”
Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time.
“Brace yourself, this is the future, but not as you remember it… it’s more badass.” Pat Cadigan, author of Synners and Fools
“Thrilling, violent, brilliant and prophetic… It’s John Wick in a world written by William Gibson, but plotted and storyboarded by Philip K Dick. Benjamin’s Bookclub (YouTube)
“The Escher Man gripped me from the very first scene and never let go. This is the new face of cyberpunk.” Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, author of The Salvage Crew
“His second novel The Escher Man (2024) is another stone-cold modern cyberpunk classic, an explosion of pulp violence that asks probing questions about our increasingly intimate relationship with technology. The Escher Man succeeds both as a fast paced, action packed thriller, and as a thoughtful dissection on how technology and capitalism impinge on our sense of self and identity. It’s exactly the kind of whip-smart and stylishly executed science fiction I’ve come to expect from Napper. Long may he continue his role as one of modern cyberpunk’s key practitioners.” Jonathan Thornton, The Fantasy Hive.
“The Escher Man is fucking brilliant.” Grimdark Magazine.
“The Escher Man brings together everything I’ve enjoyed from this author’s work so far. T. R. Napper has quickly become a new favourite of mine. With each new book he continues to deliver. He has a distinctive voice that is perfect for this genre. His prose and pacing are all pitch perfect, never missing a beat.” Craig Bookwyrm – FanFiAddict
Praise for Ghost of the Neon God
“[Ghost of the Neon God] gloriously upholds the c-p legacy. It’s not an exercise in 80’s nostalgia, nor a cut-and-paste assemblage of cyber-tropes, but rather a fresh re-
envisioning of what the first generation of writers saw and tried to forecast and report.” Locus Magazine
“Constructed with the nuance, wit, and sniper-precise observation to make you believe and fear his hard-boiled vision of the future.” Luke Arnold, author of The Last Smile in Sunder City
“Johnny Mnemonic in the Australian Outback with some Ghost in the Shell ruminations on the future of artificial intelligence. A cracking good read; T. R. Napper is one of the best SF writers working today.” Richard Swan, author of The Justice of Kings
“Relentless energy, breakneck pace, wired with countless ideas and inventions, all of them utterly convincing and harmonised into the siren song of a terrifying future. Plug this novel into the grid: it could power an entire city.” Jock Serong, author of The Rules of Backyard Cricket
“Raw, classic cyberpunk. It’s both frighteningly familiar and a fresh take on the world we are heading towards. Napper always nails grounded characters dealing with big questions. It’ll grab you from the first line and will not let go.” Timothy Hickson, author of On Writing and World Building, I – III
“Eminently quotable, not a paragraph went by without a brief marvel at a gem cutter’s perfect turn of phrase or description… Napper can’t seem to write a bad sentence, and that’s good for his readers.” Daniel R Robichaud Considering Stories
“T R Napper you changed my life.” Maggi Dominik – SFF Insiders
“Harsh and beautiful as rain on neon”
Anna Smith Spark, author of The Court of Broken Knives
Praise for 36 Streets
“Raw and raging and passionate, this is cyberpunk literature with a capital fucken L.” Richard Morgan (author of Altered Carbon)
“Brutal, brooding, brilliant . . . an angry vision of violence wrapped around a complex meditation of memory, trauma and hegemony. This is cyberpunk with soul.” Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (author of Salvage Crew)
“36 Streets is a cyberpunk tour de force – richly textured, nuanced, and shot-through with emotional depth.” Richard Swan (author of The Justice of Kings)
“Quintessential cyberpunk, hard-nosed, sharp edged and gleaming.” Adrian Tchaikovsky, (author of Children of Time)
“[36 Streets] has things both novel and serious to say about the psychological effects of intrusive media. This is a kick-the-door-down account of how past traumas — personal and national — may one day be weaponised for social control.” The Sunday Times
“High-octane, immersive SF at its best. 36 Streets is sure to become a classic in the field.” Kaaron Warren, Shirley Jackson Award-Winner
“Beautiful, shimmering, ghostly science fiction.” Anna Smith Spark (author of The Court of Broken Knives)
Praise for Neon Leviathan
“Haunting and iridescent – combines the paranoid weirdness of the best Philip K Dick, the chilly but cool-as-fuck future gleam of cyberpunk, and an achingly beautiful
literary inflection reminiscent of mainstream heavyweights like Murakami or Ishiguro. T. R. Napper’s futures feel at once gritty and vertiginous and close-focus human in the way only the best SF can manage. Whatever roadmap he’s working from, I can’t wait to see where he’s taking us next.” Richard Morgan (author of Altered Carbon)
“Each one of the stories in this volume is a carefully-crafted masterpiece that, whilst it presents a narrative of its own, is nonetheless a window into a larger world, a current of history that flows a winding path from one to another, carrying us with it.”
“Napper’s own personal history feels as though it pervades the collection. An Australian with more than a decade overseas on the sharp end of foreign aid, he’s seen a great deal of how human nature can twist under pressure, or under temptation…[his stories] have an acute sense of place, not just in a generic cyberpunk future but an Australian and Southeast Asian one that builds on tensions of race, sovereignty, class division and international relations, all currently front and centre in today’s news.” Adrian Tchaikovsky (Author of Children of Time)
“Napper has done his inspiration proud, that being author Philip K. Dick, another master of the dystopian vision—at least in terms of his ability to present the darker side of human existence. Like Dick, Napper prefers to explore those things that we consider to be fundamental to our sense of self, both on the metaphysical and physical levels, just as much as he does the nature of reality and the supernatural.” Tangent Online
Signed Editions: contact me at: voight0kampff (AT) gmail.com, if you are interested (though note that postage outside Australia can be a little pricey).
