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Fair Enough, a novel by Dewar Yearns. Now on Amazon.
Millennial Press publishes near-future science fiction set in Ontario. We are open to other fiction and non-fiction too.
Now Available · Book One of The Service Area
Fair Enough
A man builds an AI that saves his business and hollows out his neighbourhood.
Howard Heirs fixes furnaces for a living in Scarborough, Ontario. Then the System he built to save the family business starts making everyone around him redundant. Set in a near-future Toronto, in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano. The novel you can finish in an evening.
The List
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The Service Area arrives one novel at a time. Join the list and we will email you when the next book is out, with the occasional note from Dewar Yearns. You can unsubscribe at any time.
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The Series
The Service Area
Six standalone, loosely related near-future Ontario novels by Dewar Yearns about work, dignity, and what happens to people when the systems around them get better at their lives than they are. Each comes from a different corner of the province and a different kind of work. You can start anywhere.
Fair Enough
A furnace man builds the System that saves his business and hollows out his street.
The Scarborough Line
The man who automated his father's company watches the same logic come for his crew.
Fifteen Minutes
A personal support worker whose AI scheduler cuts a life's worth of care into fifteen-minute billable units.
Principal Residence
Three generations in one Scarborough bungalow nobody can afford to leave.
Differentiated Learning
A veteran teacher up against AI tutors that are genuinely, beautifully good.
Open Water
A lake-town store owner against the platform quietly turning her town into inventory.
About
About Millennial Press
Millennial Press is an independent publishing imprint based in Toronto, Ontario. Our list today is near-future science fiction, and we are open to most kinds of books.
Our list begins with Dewar Yearns and The Service Area, near-future fiction set in the Ontario suburbs and towns where most people live.
Millennial Press is a division of Ayres Capital Enterprises LTD.
Our Focus
What we publish
Near-Future Fiction
Our current list. Novels about work and everyday life as technology changes them, set in Ontario.
Fiction & Non-fiction
We are open to most kinds of books, including non-fiction about technology, work and community.
Canadian Voices
Stories rooted in Canadian places and perspectives, including the suburbs.
Submissions & Inquiries
We're reading
We read query letters for most kinds of fiction and non-fiction. Our current list is near-future science fiction, and we are particularly interested in debut authors and Canadian voices.
submissions@millennialpress.ca