Author
A. James Gould
I’m A. James Gould, and I write fiction grounded in realism and obsession. Across fantasy, sci-fi, and modern realism. I don’t write heroes. I write people who survive because they don’t know what else to do.
On The Horizon
Bridges of Ash: To Ashen Roads
Book One in a grounded fantasy series
Exile wasn’t the end. It was the assignment.
When Begonia is cast out of Tristum for befriending an Ork, she’s forced into the role of diplomat — forging uneasy alliances between divided peoples, scarred by war and myth.
But far from home, something stirs. Whispers of unrest. A silence too complete to ignore.
As prejudice collides with purpose, a deeper threat begins to uncoil in the dark.
Themes: exile, diplomacy, prejudice, and the fragile bridges between cultures.
A Year Without Voices
A standalone post-apocalyptic survival novel
I found the daycare.
Twenty-two bodies. Some still in chairs. One in a corner with a teddy bear melted to her hands.
No one came for them. No one even closed the door.
I stood there for hours. Didn't cry. Just listened.
The silence doesn’t echo. It settles.
Themes: survival, memory, isolation, and the quiet weight of witnessing.
Let There Be Hope
A standalone science fiction novel
She wasn’t meant to think. Only to carry the last of them — frozen, silent, waiting.
Centuries after Earth’s destruction, the colony ship Hope wakes alone.
No signal. No answer. Just memory, ruin, and the obligation to protect what remains.
She studies what they left behind — their wars, their art, their potential — and begins to wonder:
Is guiding them salvation… or the very thing that keeps them from becoming what they were meant to be?
Themes: artificial sentience, legacy, reconstruction, and the burden of compassion.
- -, A. James Gould Speculative Fiction Author Builder of Broken Worlds | Fantasy, Sci-fi, and Reality
I write speculative fiction grounded in realism and obsession — where history, memory, and survival twist together.
No magic fix. Just what you can carry.
Released & Remembered
Bitter & Direct:
These ones made it. The rest are still burning.
No stories have survived the fire yet. Until then, check the horizon.
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What I Build
Fiction grounded in consequence, not spectacle
Worlds that feel like they’ve already been broken — and kept moving anyway
Magic systems with limits, laws, and history
Cultures shaped by war, silence, and memory
Characters who survive because they don’t know how to stop
Stories that stretch — slowly, quietly — until something snaps
Where the noise lives: https://x.com/ajgfiction