Overview

In 1977 - a world in which America launched its space program shortly after WWII - Mitch Ward followed Flynn, the lost love of his youth, into the US Spaceguard. Now, he’s stuck on a backwater moon base with his only friend, Gloria, watching every shuttle in the hope Flynn will be on it. After an inexplicable encounter with a strange, euphoric being, Mitch and Gloria find themselves dishonourably discharged, and stuck in a USA rapidly sliding into fascism with no plans and no future. There’s nothing for it but to move to Los Angeles to chase their dreams, and find their people in the discos of the city. But when Flynn crashes back into their lives, claiming to be the host for an emissary of a utopian civilization approaching Earth, he offers Mitch the power to protect himself and friends across the queer community, so they never have to live in the shadows or face oppression again. With the world on the brink of cataclysm, and Mitch and his friends being squeezed out of every space, it’s down to this community of disco-loving outcasts to stand up for what is beautiful and right.

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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 Tavares reminds us that no matter how far technology advances, human connection will always bind us. This is a sharp and aching portrait of love painted with a deft hand. -Al Hess A hugely impressive feat of layered narratives and big ideas, told with an even bigger heart. I couldn't put it down. -Stark Holborn 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 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 PRAISE FOR NATHAN TAVARES 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. -New Scientist 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 With a narrative voice full of charm and punch, gripping from page one, the story unpeels layers of Hayes's life while painting a hopeful near-future Earth. The cozy pace ramps to a dazzling finale exploring the resilience of entangled time and the malleability of morality when love is on the line and power free at hand. A wonderful debut perfect for fans of ARRIVAL and THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS. -Essa Hansen, Nophek Gloss, Orbit 2020 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 It‰ranta, 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 Razor sharp prose, this complex, intelligent novel is ultimately empowering. -Kaaron Warren, author of Slights and more A Fractured Infinity is a heartfelt and haunting journey through the multiverse, with a clever, compelling narrative voice and a love story that shatters the boundaries between realities. -Ren Hutchings, author of Under Fortunate Stars Unboxing a puzzle-box crush in an alternate universe ... an idiosyncratic take on the ever-expanding multiverse genre. -Nikhil Singh, author of Club Ded '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 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 It's this juxtaposition of real-life relationships and ground-breaking technology that makes the novel shine. --GeekDad This is a compelling, unconventional debut that is too freaking awesome to be a debut; a book that's easy to read, but hard to recover from. -Every Book a Doorway An engaging and enthralling story filled with interesting characters and ideas that was hard to put down. -Set the Tape Fast-paced and thrilling. -Tea Leaf Reads A multiversal love-story, a genre savvy sci-fi with a strong emotional core. -Writings of a Doomscribe Nathan Tavares is interested chiefly in weaving a powerful and touching love story between two very different, flawed, engaging men. He succeeds handsomely. -The Times 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

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 PRAISE FOR NATHAN TAVARES 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 Tavares reminds us that no matter how far technology advances, human connection will always bind us. This is a sharp and aching portrait of love painted with a deft hand. -Al Hess A hugely impressive feat of layered narratives and big ideas, told with an even bigger heart. I couldn't put it down. -Stark Holborn 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 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 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. -New Scientist 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 With a narrative voice full of charm and punch, gripping from page one, the story unpeels layers of Hayes's life while painting a hopeful near-future Earth. The cozy pace ramps to a dazzling finale exploring the resilience of entangled time and the malleability of morality when love is on the line and power free at hand. A wonderful debut perfect for fans of ARRIVAL and THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS. -Essa Hansen, Nophek Gloss, Orbit 2020 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 It0/00ranta, 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 Razor sharp prose, this complex, intelligent novel is ultimately empowering. -Kaaron Warren, author of Slights and more A Fractured Infinity is a heartfelt and haunting journey through the multiverse, with a clever, compelling narrative voice and a love story that shatters the boundaries between realities. -Ren Hutchings, author of Under Fortunate Stars Unboxing a puzzle-box crush in an alternate universe ... an idiosyncratic take on the ever-expanding multiverse genre. -Nikhil Singh, author of Club Ded '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 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 It's this juxtaposition of real-life relationships and ground-breaking technology that makes the novel shine. --GeekDad This is a compelling, unconventional debut that is too freaking awesome to be a debut; a book that's easy to read, but hard to recover from. -Every Book a Doorway An engaging and enthralling story filled with interesting characters and ideas that was hard to put down. -Set the Tape Fast-paced and thrilling. -Tea Leaf Reads A multiversal love-story, a genre savvy sci-fi with a strong emotional core. -Writings of a Doomscribe Nathan Tavares is interested chiefly in weaving a powerful and touching love story between two very different, flawed, engaging men. He succeeds handsomely. -The Times

Author Information

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, from superheroes to mythology. He studied English in college and received his MFA in creative writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His editorial work celebrates queer culture and historically excluded communities, with pieces appearing in GQ, Out, and elsewhere.

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