The Author
David Mayne
Writing at the edge of the known — where science frays into myth and the familiar turns strange.
David Mayne is a fantasy and science fiction author whose work spans the vast and the intimate — epic cosmic battles, alien worlds, and the quiet terror of a man who cannot wake from his own dreams.
Drawing from a lifelong obsession with the uncanny, the mythic, and the deeply human, Lumen builds worlds that feel both alien and achingly familiar. The novels don't flinch from darkness — they live in it, finding the light only where it's earned.
From the time-fracturing existential dread of The Process, to the galactic imprisonment of Zoo, to the dreamworld cosmic war of Mr. Wind — each book is its own universe, connected by a single thread: the belief that ordinary people carry extraordinary destinies, and that the line between the real and the impossible is thinner than we dare admit.
David writes for readers who want to be challenged, unsettled, and ultimately transformed. These are not safe stories. They are the kind that stay with you long after the last page — in the dark, just before sleep.
"I don't write in the light. I write in the space just before it arrives."
— Lumen Emerson