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Nathan Tavares is a novelist and journalist based in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of A Fractured Infinity, Welcome to Forever, and The Disco at the End of the World (June 2026, Titan Books).
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Nathan Tavares is a novelist and journalist based in 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 three queer science fiction novels from Titan Books: A Fractured Infinity—which the New York Times called "a very beautiful, tender portrait of a romance"—Welcome to Forever, and The Disco at the End of the World (June 2026).
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Nathan Tavares is a novelist, journalist, and queer cultural historian based 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. He 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.
His debut novel, A Fractured Infinity (November 2022, Titan Books), is a multiverse-hopping science fiction 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 second novel, Welcome to Forever (March 2024, Titan Books), is a psychedelic, hopeful cyberpunk tale about what digital immortality can do to love, centered on a time-blurring love story between two refugees.
His third novel, The Disco at the End of the World (June 2026, Titan Books), is part protest, part party—a combination of political satire, protest art, and a celebration of queer resilience set in an alternate 1977 Los Angeles, where disco music fuels a community of queer outcasts resisting fascism and saving the world. Smuggled disco tracks—especially “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer (who was born in the same Boston neighborhood Nathan now calls home)—serve as cosmic rallying cries. Especially at a time when arts funding is being cut across America, he is proud to have received a 2025 Massachusetts Cultural Council grant in support of The Disco at the End of the World.
He writes stories about people in strange, heartbreaking, or otherwise unexpected situations—often as a result of technologies that don't seem far off into the future. He writes mainly queer and trans 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.
As a journalist, his work for GQ, Esquire, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, WBUR, and Eater Boston centers on queer culture, food, travel, and historically marginalized communities. His journalism and reported features have documented queer cultural history across several decades. His GQ piece on the 1970s Castro Clone look led to an interview for the BBC Radio 4 documentary Mercury. His Esquire profile of Patrick Batt and his San Francisco queer memorabilia store AutoErotica inspired two subsequent documentaries about the store. Other 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 and a reported long-read about the Portuguese diaspora in Massachusetts.
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/she) 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
Praise for Welcome to Forever
“Tavares’s worldbuilding is complex and fascinating in this kaleidoscope of a novel. The high-stakes science fiction is sharp and tragic, hopeful and thrilling.” - Library Journal
“Tavares is fast becoming my favourite SF writer. Welcome to Forever is a masterful futuristic love story, absorbing and all too real.” - Kaaron Warren, award winning author of Into Bones Like Oil
“A hugely impressive feat of layered narratives and big ideas, told with an even bigger heart. I couldn’t put it down.” - Stark Holborn, author of Ten Low and Hel’s Eight
“A thrilling vision of the future and a poignant tale of love and marriage, Welcome to Forever is impossible to forget. Tavares keenly engages with contemporary conversations about immortality and identity, and weaves a heartbreakingly beautiful story about the lengths people go for the ones they love.”
Victor Manibo, the author of The Sleepless and Escape Velocity. ,
“In Welcome to Forever, Tavares does what all great writers of science fiction do best. He takes our hopes, fears and anxieties about the way we live today, skewers them to the page and makes the reader watch, helpless and captivated as they wriggle underneath his touch. Whether he’s probing the ethics – or absence thereof – in techno-capitalism, questioning whether the growing mental health industrial complex can really heal our minds and spirits or simply reminding us that it’s often harder to keep love than find it, he finds way to bridge big ideas with the truths of human nature on every page. Welcome to Forever is a work of artistic maturity, dazzling imagination and a horrible sense of foresight over what might come to pass – if we let it happen.” - Chris McCrudden, author of the Battlestar Suburbia series
Advanced praise for The Disco at the End of the World
“A rousing cosmic battle cry for people who refuse to bow to petty captains and authoritarian regimes. The novel is also a love story that takes bold gestures and yearning to new heights. I was hooked from the start. His skillful intertwining of creeping political oppression and cultural rebellion creates a riveting portrait of clever misfits remaining true to themselves as the walls around them begin to close in – as queer joy and subversiveness prove vital to queer survival.” - Rasheed Newson, bestselling-author of My Government Means to Kill Me, There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood, and executive producer of the drama series Bel-Air.
“Retrofuturistic space, disco dancing, and fighting fascism. A proper triple threat of a novel that I’d happily hire to perform at my cabaret.” - Calvin James, author of Affairs of State
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 (they/she) / ndavis@bookendsliterary.com
Film rights: Naomi Davis / ndavis@bookendsliterary.com
Translation rights: Translation: foreignrights@bookendsliterary.com
Upcoming Publicity Campaign for The Disco at the End of the World
The author (front right) visiting with the Boston Gay Book Club for the release of A Fractured Infinity
Nathan will embark on a book tour to celebrate the release of The Disco at the End of the World, 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.
Images
Credit: Eric Richard Magnussen
Credit: Eric Richard Magnussen
Credit: Eric Richard Magnussen
Cover by Julia Lloyd
Cover by Julia Lloyd
Cover by Julia Lloyd