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Nathan Tavares is a writer from Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of the novel A FRACTURED INFINITY, and his second novel, WELCOME TO FOREVER, comes out March 5, 2024 from Titan Books.
60-word bio
Nathan Tavares is a writer from Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in the Portuguese-American community of southeastern Massachusetts and developed a love for fantastical stories at an early age. He is the author of the queer-focused scifis novel A FRACTURED INFINITY ("a very beautiful, tender portrait" - the New York Times), and WELCOME TO FOREVER, which was released by Titan Books in March 2024.
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Nathan Tavares is a speculative fiction writer who lives in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born and grew up in the Portuguese-American community surrounding Fall River Massachusetts, where his family immigrated from their native Portugal.
Nathan developed a love of storytelling and the fantastical from a young age, thanks in a large part to superhero TV shows and mythology. He told his school teachers at age seven that he wanted to be a writer, and followed that career path (sometimes frustratingly single-mindedly) for his whole life. He dove into the arts in high school and studied English in college. He graduated, worked as a server for a while, and worked a teaching position at a medical software company outside of Boston for a few years. He received his MFA in creative writing from Lesley University, published short fiction as he worked as a freelance writer, then pursued a career as a magazine writer and editor (which at the time was a more stable career path than it is today).
He writes stories about people in strange, heartbreaking, or otherwise unexpected situations—often as a result of weird or wonderful technologies that don’t seem that far off into the future. He writes mainly queer characters centered in emotionally propelled stories where coming-out trauma is not the focus (other trauma, though? Buckle up). His stories often parallel his own mental health journey. His debut novel, A Fractured Infinity, is a multiverse-hopping scifi road trip about the lengths a troubled man will go to in order to save the man he loves, which the New York Times called “a very beautiful, tender portrait of a romance” and “a delightful, spiraling, idiosyncratic book.” His next book, Welcome to Forever, was release by Titan Books in March 2024, and is a psychedelic, hopeful cyberpunk tale about what digital immortality can do to love, centered on a time-blurring, mind-bending love story between two refugees.
Just like his fiction, his work as a journalist for outlets like GQ, Esquire, Travel + Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, Boston magazine, and Eater Boston centers on people from historically marginalized communities—both to celebrate their work and help their businesses in whatever ways he can as an ally. His favorite pieces include a feature on a new permanent exhibit at the Provincetown Museum which rightfully includes the Native American perspective of the much-mythologized story of pilgrims arriving in America; a story about a Black business owner taking on a real estate monolith in Boston; a story of how a queer business owner’s mental health journey propelled his apparel brand; and a reported feature on how drag bans are impacting performers, artists, and businesses in Boston and beyond.
He has been featured on io9.com, and in the BBC Radio 4 documentary Mercury, the New Scientist, the Boston Globe, and elsewhere.
He enjoys traveling, is an avid gamer, and besides his husband of many years, the love of his life is his husky, Ruby. He balances many, many hours writing at his kitchen table by trying to be an athlete, since his other childhood dream was to become an Olympic gymnast. Chances of that one, though, are looking pretty slim?
He is represented by Naomi Davis (they/them) at BookEnds Literary.
Praise for A Fractured Infinity
“A very beautiful, tender portrait of a romance, its unremarkable mundanity made precious against the backdrop of so many iterations…It’s a delightful, spiraling, idiosyncratic book that uses the language and techniques of filmmaking to structure a more interesting reading experience.” - The New York Times
“A powerful and touching love story.” -The Times
“Populated by some of the best sci-fi has to offer … The multiverse trope offers and easy and entertaining vehicle for very deep philosophical lessons about what it takes to grow up at any age.” -The New Scientist
“Tavares hits the gas, sending the plot rocketing through dozens of fascinating possible Earths. The epic love story forms an intense emotional core and Hayes’s conversational narration charms. Anyone looking for queer sci-fi should check this out.’- Publishers Weekly
“A delightfully narrated tale of love at any cost, A FRACTURED INFINITY is as fun as it is heartfelt.” - Megan O’Keefe, author of Velocity Weapon and more
“A cinematic rollercoaster ride … but the real beating heart of the novel is the compelling gay love story that I will remember for a long time: brilliant, flawed, multi-layered and beautifully human.” -Emmi Itäranta, author of The Moonday Letters
“Both poignant and thrilling … it’s a multifaceted jewel, with humanity’s flaws at its heart.” - Stark Holborn, author of Ten Low and Hel’s Eight
“Tavares’s prose is dense, chewy, packed with one idea after another as he deftly builds not just one possible future world but dozens, all without ever losing sight of the most important thread: Hayes’s love for Yusuf.” - SFX
Welcome to the novel Welcome to Forever
Nathan extends the themes explored in A Fractured Infinity—of identity, personal responsibility, escapism, and more—in his second novel, Welcome to Forever, which will be published on March 5, 2024. The BIPOC and queer main cast is entirely made of people in their forties through their sixties, and Nathan is excited to write about this segment of the population that is not commonly featured in scifi and queer stories. He’s also excited to release a novel that’s a queer marriage story in a scifi setting.
The novel centers on the love story of Fox, a brilliant memory editor who fled Pakistan with his mother, and Gabe, who hides his shadowy past as a child in Mexico behind a charming exterior. Their past and present lives are somehow tied to a secretive cabal that wants to push humanity into its next stage of evolution. Fans of HBO Max’s The Last of Us and its devastating “Long, Long Time” episode starring Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman, will be interested to know that a large section of the novel features the love story between two men in their sixties.
Head to io9.com for an exclusive first-chapter reveal.
Thematic and world-building elements include:
A post-nation world mostly run and controlled by a megalithic corporation (run by a Black woman from a refugee nation) that’s at best, trying to fix the mistakes of human history. And, at worst, monumentally blind-sided to the global impacts of its own technologies.
A world where memories may be digitally saved and edited.
A world where modified bodies and memories are commodities that may be purchased, like “Happy Family Vacation.”
Questions explored in the novel include:
What happens to the global population, environment, and economies when billions of people are effectively immortal. And what happens to those left behind who can’t afford such a “gift?”
What can we do to help the most vulnerable? What does a nation of refugees look like?
What happens when you can “enter” someone else’s memories? Should you? What right do you have to the past memories, or even the present experience of your partner?
What does a marriage that spans years—decades, maybe even centuries?—look like? What does “loving someone forever” mean when you can pretty much live forever?
What does marriage therapy look like in a world where you can experience each other’s memories? Individual therapy? How much are you responsible for misdeeds that you don’t remember committing?
Can “subjective reality” exist in a world where anyone can rewrite their personal histories and edit their memories? Is editing your memories escapism or survival?
Contacts
Titan Books:
U.S. Publicity Director: Katharine Carroll / katharine.carroll@titanemail.com
Head of Marketing: Hannah Scudamore / hannah.scudamore@titanemail.com
Literary Agent:
Naomi Davis / ndavis@bookendsliterary.com
Film rights: Naomi Davis / ndavis@bookendsliterary.com
Translation rights: Translation: foreignrights@bookendsliterary.com
Upcoming Publicity Campaign for Welcome to Forever
The author (front right) visiting with the Boston Gay Book Club
Nathan will embark on a national book tour to celebrate the release of Welcome to Forever, with a special emphasis placed on events at queer spaces and with indie book-sellers.
Besides “official” tour dates, he regularly drops in to local bookstores that are a reasonable driving distance from Boston to connect with booksellers. He’s also happy to meet with book clubs.
Other marketing/publicity information, including Bookstagram and BookTok influencer outreach, to come.
Images
Credit: Eric Richard Magnussen
Credit: Eric Richard Magnussen
Credit: Eric Richard Magnussen
Cover by Julia Lloyd
Cover by Julia Lloyd