Michael R. Fletcher is a Canadian writer whose first novel,
88
, was published by Five Rivers Publishing, a small Canadian press. His short fiction can be found in
Interzone
,
On Spec
,
Daily Science Fiction
,
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
, and
Arcane
. This novel grew out of his desire to write something outside of the normal tropes of fantasy, and his contemplation of rare mental disorders (like Cotard's Syndrome) in a fantasy context.