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The Interdimensional Apology Initiative
Paperback
ISBN13: 9782970201502
Publisher: Jon Pertwee Publishing
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 524
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Interdimensional Apology Initiative
Project Reference: 713B Classification: Routine (Pending) Status: Adequately Concluded
When Dean Hollister receives a formal apology for his existence, correctly filed and appropriately stamped, he becomes entangled in a bureaucratic structure vast enough to administer entire universes, yet fundamentally unprepared for someone who asks follow-up questions.
The project was not intended to involve humans. This has proven to be an oversight.
What follows involves a sentient memo that accidentally founded a religion, a lost property archive containing several missing Tuesdays, a planet whose entire culture is built around administrative fulfilment, an apology so large it required its own department, and tea as the only reliably stable constant in a universe that has stopped agreeing on what day it is.
Dean navigates all of this with the weary resilience of someone who has always suspected the universe was badly managed and is now being proven right. Alongside him: Nora, whose mere presence seems to stabilise reality, whether reality has requested it or not; Jillex, who can make the incomprehensible comprehensible, and occasionally wishes she couldn't; and Korl, an administrator who has a form for everything, deployed with the precision of a wasp's abdomen around jam sandwiches.
Together they will negotiate duplicate Tuesdays, survive mandatory happiness legislation, audit their own closure, and discover that the smallest apologies carry the most weight. The universe does not make this easy. It does, however, provide adequate tea.
But this novel is doing something beyond comic science fiction. Gradually, quietly, the story becomes aware of itself. Characters begin negotiating the terms of their own ending. The author is put on trial for losing the plot and formally required to cede control to the manuscript. The paperwork files complaints.
Working in the tradition of absurdist fiction that uses bureaucracy to examine what it means to be human, but going further than most, The Interdimensional Apology Initiative collapses the boundary between story and storytelling until the two are the same thing.
It is, by any reasonable assessment, adequately written.
No apologies are guaranteed. Several are pending.
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