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Jesse Rowell

Jesse Rowell writes science fiction that is accessible and memorable. His background in technology, literature and poetry helps shape the stories he writes. He has worked in multiple technology sectors including broadcast news monitoring, supply chain logistics, and software as a service.


Inspired by science fiction writers Kōbō Abe, René 

Jesse Rowell writes science fiction that is accessible and memorable. His background in technology, literature and poetry helps shape the stories he writes. He has worked in multiple technology sectors including broadcast news monitoring, supply chain logistics, and software as a service.


Inspired by science fiction writers Kōbō Abe, René Barjavel, Philip K. Dick, Joan D. Vinge, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Larry Niven, Margaret Atwood, Isaac Asimov, and Ursula K. Le Guin, Jesse's novels and short stories gravitate toward picaresque themes and existentialism. Jesse has been featured in multiple publications across media outlets, including NPR and several literary journals.


Originally from Colorado he spends his time between Seattle and the Big Island of Hawai'i. He enjoys writing novels and short stories, and spending time with his wife and two daughters. 


For inquiries, please reach out  via Mastodon or email.

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PUBLISHED WORK

I Know How This Ends

22 Ideas About the Future

I Know How This Ends

Cover of Shoreline of Infinity, issue 33 for Winter 2022/23

My crewmates have grown mad with misconceptions. They rage at the tapping, fantasize about violence, and pretend that we still have free will. Our free will ended when we trapped ourselves inside this shell.


Shoreline Of Infinity - Publisher

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The Stone Piles

22 Ideas About the Future

I Know How This Ends

A black cat on the cover of the November 2022 issue of After Dinner Conversation

Jesse Rowell's The Stone Piles featured in magazine; the ethics of shame and suffering.


After Dinner Conversation - Publisher

PURCHASE MAGAZINE

22 Ideas About the Future

22 Ideas About the Future

22 Ideas About the Future

Image of book cover with title "22 Ideas About the Future."

Jesse Rowell's The Valens Program featured in anthology; a "collection of provocations."


Cybersalon - Publisher

PURCHASE BOOK

Swans

Cassandra's Burden

22 Ideas About the Future

Painting of Dead Swan - Jan Weenix, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

They looked like us, but we couldn’t connect with them as they spread disinformation through the tidal flow, their memetic messages turning us against ourselves. “When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear,” we quoted Sirach when they became our enemy.


Ab Terra Books - Publisher

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Cassandra's Burden

Cassandra's Burden

Cassandra's Burden

Evelyn De Morgan painting of Greek Mythological figure Cassandra,1898. Source: Wikimedia

All past and future lives spread out in the singularity like strings on a lute. I see Hector’s life and pluck his string. He has added some inconsequential events to his future but the sound of his note decays into silence against Achilles’s spear. 


Ab Terra Books - Publisher

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The Worm

Cassandra's Burden

Cassandra's Burden

Photo of a man holding a gray dagger, by Reza Hasannia, source: unsplash

The courage of that stranger, somebody lost to the tattered pages of our country’s history. What is courage but a tourist book of suicide? The cripple holding a gun to his heart, or the intellectual fighting for revolution, one in the same married in death.


The Chamber Magazine - Publisher

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Before Noon

The Valens Program

The Valens Program

Photo of clocks by John Tyson on Unsplash

He felt a pain remembering that he had scripted this exact response for caregiver robots if asked meaning-of-life questions. He was hearing himself answer himself through a synthetic voice, a signature of his own in the digital domain.


Ab Terra Books - Publisher 

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The Valens Program

The Valens Program

The Valens Program

Reeves Electronic analog computer (REAC) - Credit: NASA

Murphy Vega tried to bury his creations under shale and sandstone. The community he once led now lies in ruins, a ghost town of broken boards and wall insulation made of newspaper flaking off like yellow leaves in the autumn wind. The imaginary people he sought to hide...


Cybersalon - Publisher

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Unbounded

The Valens Program

Tsk Tsk Tristesse

Photo of astronaut surrounded by floating masks, by Cash Macanaya, source unsplash

They laughed at the shifting fabric of their bed. “This is space,” she said running her hand over the sheets, “and this is us traveling through space. These ripples are gravity wells which accelerate you toward me."


Ab Terra Books - Publisher

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Tsk Tsk Tristesse

problem breathes down

Tsk Tsk Tristesse

Photo of rooster by Sakura on Upsplash

The silver rooster pecked at its body and left when it didn’t rise. On subsequent days he returned to visit the body and tsk tsk at the state of his companion, tsk tsk at his own isolation, the smell of rot rising in the humidity.


Hawai'i Pacific Review - Publisher

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problem breathes down

problem breathes down

problem breathes down

Landsat 7 image of clouds off the Chilean coast near the Juan Fernandez Islands. Credit: NASA

Liquid pressed against the geometric curve of time, space and matter. We rest on liquid strings plucked to send us singing words that reproduce images that reproduce words that reproduce images.


Cirque Literary Journal - Publisher 

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Man in the Crowd

problem breathes down

problem breathes down

Photo of Herbert Hoover Library of Congress on Unsplash.

What had he whispered in her ear? It had become relevant now as I was about to be lifted up again. The bearded man stood in the doorway, forever smirking, a specter in both our minds.


Crack the Spine Literary Magazine - Publisher 

PURCHASE BOOK

The Outliers

The Outliers

The Outliers

Photo of woman wearing glass by Vitaliy Zalishchyker on Unsplash.

The tour bus hadn't arrived yet. Soon they would spill through the door, asking for arrowheads and pottery shards. Their graceless bodies stepping on ghosts.


NPR - Publisher 

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The Wash

The Outliers

The Outliers

Supermassive Black Holes with Relativistic Jets - Credit: NASA

Pavement river on the streets below / where cars hum in stagnant repose / like huddled clumps of swampland reeds / unmoved by swimming tadpole tails


Impulse Journal - Publisher 

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