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SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR

M. KEVIN HAYDEN

​M. Kevin Hayden crafts tales where the ordinary unravels into the extraordinary, weaving fate, reality, and unseen forces.

Locked-In by M.  Kevin Hayden. Covers shows an illustrated cover of a robot with a red circle light on its face.
Locked-In by M.  Kevin Hayden. Covers shows an illustrated cover of a robot with a red circle light on its face.

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LOCKED-IN

An inventive and suspenseful speculative novel for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, Locked-In tenderly explores the most elemental question: what does it mean to have a soul? 

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Locked-In by M.  Kevin Hayden. Covers shows an illustrated cover of a robot with a red circle light on its face.

LOCKED-IN

An inventive and suspenseful speculative novel for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, Locked-In tenderly explores the most elemental question: what does it mean to have a soul? 

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Willow Rose by M. Kevin Hayden. Cover shows a comet falling into earth with red and green gases coming out of it.

WILLOW ROSE

For lovers of Stephen Graham Jones, Jeff VanderMeer, and Nick Cutter, Willow Rose is a compulsively readable, literary ode to the terror of the unknown that comes for all of us in the depths of night.

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An Old Soul by M. Kevin Hayden. Cover shows a glitchy pixelated illustration of a man with no face.

AN OLD SOUL

“It’s YOUR world.”

 

A brilliant, heart-breaking, and compulsively readable mystery that tugs on the fabric of reality, and explores what it might mean for humanity if we didn’t have to lose our loved ones…at least not in the way we think.

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The universe tells a story with infinite words, across countless worlds. Here you’ll find but a few of them.

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M. KEVIN HAYDEN

M. Kevin Hayden is a novelist from the South Side of Chicago, where he grew up among storefront churches, candy ladies, and the echo of stories waiting to be told.

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