carl duzett: award-winning author of scifi, fantasy, and humor

Carl Duzett was sent from the future to terminate the mother of an eventual resistance leader. He married her instead, and now writes speculative fiction with an unfair advantage. They live together in Utah with their five children, of which only some have exhibited predilection for the leading of resistances.

In addition to his novels and short fiction, he also writes a free newsletter, The Duzett Gazette, which contains story previews, writing updates, and humor articles. Very few Gazette subscribers have died.

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Germophobic shut-in Karisa Cirillo just wants to use the finest, most advanced cleaning technology she can get her gloved hands on. So she’s delighted when she receives a prototype quantum vacuum that not only cleans all the dust from her floor, but also all the dust that will be on her floor for the next seven days.

But when her quantum vacuum sucks up something ominous from the future, Karisa finds herself in a mess that maybe even she can’t clean up.

THE ONCE AND FUTURE CLEAN is a charming story of science fiction that will tug the corners of your mouth in various directions. Subscribe now to The Duzett Gazette and receive this award-winning story for free.

recent articles

Godzilla Minus One – A Critical Review

When you talk about something like Godzilla Minus One, you are treading into Shakespearean territory regarding analyzing themes and structure.

The Bad News

I usually cover the mundanity of my pedestrian, everyman life in this space. For a change of pace, I thought I’d cast my gaze further abroad, and share something far more unique to you, the great and intelligent readers of the Duzett Gazette; something you hear about every day, but never truly encounter yourself: the news.

Those Poor Cougars

I am not a good football spectator. I regularly chime in with insightful queries, such as “This is the sport where they say ‘love’, right?,” or “So when do they let the lions loose?”

And It Was All Yellow

So there I was: Finally awake, wearing different clothes, no underwear on, lying next to a strange woman, my belly shaved. Not again, I think.

2023: The Year in Preview

I was prepared to do a full review of the year 2022 – highlights, lowlights, middlelights, the whole bit. Then I realized that would be a waste of time, as the one trait shared among all Duzett Gazette subscribers is their being alive last year.

We Need Another Christmas Romance

The old Christmas traditions are dead. Families used to celebrate Christmas in the one true and correct way: by watching scratchy animated films about dying snowmen, mutated reindeer, anemic trees, and weird green men you wouldn’t touch with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.