11/14/2025
Big news today!!! Alan Dean Foster is sharing a story the world has never read before.
We are releasing Dead Man’s Tale, a never before published short story from Alan, now live to read online for the very first time.
Here’s how Alan describes it:
“Tired, frustrated, suicidal, and ready to end it all. Easy and clean to do in an advanced, capitalistic future.
Not so easy when advanced, capitalistic aliens are involved.”
If you love smart, eerie, brain twisting science fiction, jump right in!
And get ready. The interactive Hidden Door I story experience for Dead Man’s Tale is coming next week.
Hidden Door is heading to the stars!
This month, we're unveiling a new slate of science fiction adaptations. Each world is a doorway into a different kind of future - from mind-linked revolutionaries to lonely androids and wisecracking aliens.
Dead Man’s Tale – Based on a never-before-published novelette by Alan Dean Foster, experience an alien symbiote literally living rent-free in your head, in a buddy comedy where death isn’t necessarily the end.
Nexus – Based on Ramez Naam’s acclaimed trilogy, dive into a near-future where mind-linking technology blurs the line between human and machine. Join the activists, scientists, and spies racing to decide the fate of post-human evolution.
Saturn’s Children – From Charles Stross, a darkly comic space opera set in a solar system where humanity is extinct—but its robot heirs are very much alive. Play as an android navigating the remains of human civilization in a story equal parts noir, adventure, and existential absurdity.
Read the Dead Man's Tale novelette now: https://www.hiddendoor.co/title/dead_mans_tale
