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Fractional Fiction: A Literary Series by David Boles

Fractional Fiction

A Literary Production Series · Nine Novels

Fractional Fiction takes classic literature and reimagines it through the lens of modern knowledge. Each novel begins with a public domain source text and fuses its themes, character dynamics, and dramatic architecture with contemporary scientific, historical, or philosophical research to create something entirely new.

The process is deliberate and systematic. Source analysis dissects the original work's narrative structure and thematic engine. Research integration provides new contexts and new possibilities. Structural synthesis follows established dramatic frameworks, ensuring the new work honors both its literary heritage and the demands of contemporary storytelling.

Not adaptation. Not pastiche. Transformation with purpose.

The Series

The Likeness

The Likeness

David Boles

Voice cloning and the machinery of fabrication. What happens when ninety-three seconds of synthetic speech can destroy a career built over fifteen years?
 Standard Deviation

Standard Deviation

David Boles

Five characters caught in a municipal scoring system. What happens when the human body is inscribed within digital circles and squares?
 Civility Certified

Civility Certified

David Boles

A dossier novella. What happens when access becomes a credential? A bureaucratic horror story told through the documents themselves.
 The Somnambulist's Prophecy

The Somnambulist's Prophecy

David Boles

Prophetic somnambulism and the burden of foreknowledge. What do we owe to visions we never asked for?
 The Corollary

The Corollary

David Boles

Women's witness networks in WWI. One refusal to say amen becomes an act of international resistance.
 The Held Land

The Held Land

David Boles

Black land dispossession and inherited memory in Nebraska. Three families, 159 years, one quarter-section of prairie.
 The Kinship of Strangers

The Kinship of Strangers

David Boles

Genetic identity and unexpected connection. What happens when a DNA test rewrites the story your family told you?
 The Inheritance

The Inheritance

David Boles

Epigenetic trauma and family secrets in Nebraska. The body remembers what the mind was never told.
 The Dying Grove

The Dying Grove

David Boles

Fungal consciousness and networked memory in the Pacific Northwest. The forest is not dying. It is deciding.

The Method

Each Fractional Fiction novel documents its origins:

Source Material: The public domain work that provides thematic and structural foundation.

Research Domain: The contemporary knowledge integrated into the narrative.

Structural Framework: The dramatic architecture guiding the synthesis.

This transparency invites readers to explore the connections between source and transformation, to see how classic literature continues to speak through new forms.

About the Author

David Boles is a multidisciplinary creative professional based in New York City with over four decades of experience as an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher. He holds an MFA from Columbia University, where he trained at the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Graduate Theatre Studies. He founded David Boles Books Writing and Publishing in 1975.

Fractional Fiction represents his commitment to the proposition that literature builds upon literature, that every story carries forward the stories that came before, transformed by the knowledge and concerns of its own moment.

David is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Authors Guild, and PEN America.

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