Archipelago of Light — Shearline Press

Across six continents, a tech visionary, a fighter, an intelligence analyst, a trafficking survivor, a child soldier, a refugee, and a Party loyalist each build a different answer to the same question:

"A visionary thought experiment with nuanced characters and persuasive attention to the practical details of renewing Enlightenment ideals in the face of entrenched, violent power."

— BookLife, Publishers Weekly
"Thought-provoking, cinematic…. a novel that is well worth the challenge of absorbing to gain more understanding of the political, technical, and social issues humanity is currently facing."

— The US Review of Books
"Readers who want science fiction to do more than entertain, who want it to argue, diagnose, and unsettle, will find a lot here. Mehlhorn has written a novel of systems and souls."

— The San Francisco Book Review
"A gripping speculative thriller that [marks] Dmitri Mehlhorn as an author for those who want to make sense of the state of the world through the prism of quality science fiction."

— IndieReader
"Readers who like speculative fiction that thinks dangerously, and argues with the present rather than merely decorating it will find a great deal to engage with here."

— Manhattan Book Review