The
Rusk Disconnect
Maren Brascom.
Maren Brascom writes science-forward literary speculative fiction grounded in geology, deep time, matter, evidence, and attention. The Rusk Disconnect is a novel of deep time, matter, and the dangerous comfort of separation.
The Book
A novel of deep time, matter, and the dangerous comfort of separation.
Three metronomes stop agreeing with themselves. Then a limestone sample strikes the floor and begins to freeze.
That is the first public record.
The Rusk Archive
The record remains open.
Recovered field notes, classroom transcripts, sample records and archive fragments from the Rusk Sequence.
About
About Maren Brascom
Maren Brascom is the pseudonym of a geologist and longtime science educator whose work has centered on helping students understand how the Earth records its own history. After decades spent teaching geology, interpreting landscapes, and thinking about deep time, they turned to fiction as a way to explore questions that scientific writing alone cannot answer.
The Rusk Disconnect grew from a simple idea: what if the planet communicated through patterns that geology could recognize but not fully explain? Rather than offering answers, the novel follows scientists, students, and ordinary people confronting observations that resist familiar explanations.
The choice to publish under a pseudonym reflects a desire to let the work stand apart from an academic career and to preserve a clear distinction between professional scholarship and fiction. Maren Brascom writes stories grounded in science, curiosity, and the belief that the Earth has always been telling its own story—we are only beginning to notice how much remains to be read.
Notification
Be told when the record opens.
Release notification and occasional entries from the Rusk Archive. No hype, no schedule you did not ask for.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Social Media
Contact
Contact
For reader correspondence, media requests, speaking invitations, and rights inquiries–
General: hello@marenbrascom.com
Press: press@marenbrascom.com
Rights: rights@marenbrascom.com
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For press materials, see the media kit.