Daniel Aegan

Trash Tuesday is fast approaching. I’m not talking about a change in your garbage pickup schedule. Humans Are Trash drops this coming Tuesday! It will be my fifteenth self-published book (Holy shit!) and the second with the word “trash” in its title.

At this point you may be asking yourself, “Why does Dan write so much trash?” Well, since you asked, I write trash so you’ll be forced to deal with my trash.

My first foray into the world of trash was The Adventures of Trash Rat that featured a rat who lived in a world of trash (in case you couldn’t gather that from the title). The whole thing took place in a fantasy world created in a garbage dump and features a quest of immense magnitude when seen from the characters’ smaller point of view. Does the fictional dump world of Raminath reflect any real world trashiness, or is it its own place in time? Perhaps it’s a little of both.

Coming soon from Daniel Aegan: Humans Are Trash

What about this newest trashy book? It may not be as subtle as a rat and his raccoon pal traversing a land of garbage and magic, dodging fascist religious acolytes, hauling ass from a demented father figure trying to kill them, and pursuing hope in a world that’s all but abandoned it. No, Humans Are Trash gets right in the face of wealth celebrity culture (if that is a real thing) and takes a piss all over the human condition from a galactic perspective. Or maybe it doesn’t… I’ll let the reader take away what they will. Hell, even if it’s not as deep as I’m making it sound, you’re sure to get a decent laugh or three out of it.

I didn’t set out to be a trashy writer, but it was bound to happen. All writers leave mental skid marks all over their pages. A story it’s a jumble of letters, words, sentences, and paragraphs. It’s a piece of your minds and souls (for those of us who have them). Trashy or refined, it’s never just a story. So… Am I trash? No, I’m a man(ish). In fairness to my trashiness, doing my proofreading, I was inspired to expand the Tradhverse with my next WIP Clone Factory Beta, which focuses on a crybaby-ass billionaire who buys a clone lab to get a copy of his ex wife after she dumps his sorry ass. You can probably guess who that particular character is based on. Don’t worry! The story focuses on the first five clones the lab produces and isn’t fully about the billionaire scumbag and the mad scientist running the cloning lab. What I’m saying here is: trash begets trash.

I fear I’ve said touch about a book I haven’t yet written and won’t drop until 2027ish…

Getting back on the galactic track, you may have expected a preview of Humans Are Trash here or at least a blurb with some behind-the-scenes features. I can tell you the story was inspired by the billionaire space race, and the characters are (mostly) based on actual celebrities and wealthy elitists. My mind went to that trashy place where stories are born and wondered, “What would happen if a handful of rich assholes actually found themselves lost in space?” The short answer is is, “They’d die,” but with secret wormholes, multiple alien species with disdain for humans, and massive space stations, there’s a chance, albeit slim, that they’d find a way to survive at least for a little while. I also figured they’d bring their egomaniacal attitudes through the galactic community and confirm what the rest of the universe already feels about Earth and its denizens: humans are trash. At the end of the day, isn’t making your species out to be the shitheads to end all shitheads what storytelling is all about?

The wait is almost over. Humans Are Trash will be here on Trash Tuesday, and you can preorder it now pretty much anywhere. It’s a fun-as-hell sci-fi comedy that doesn’t pull its punches. You may wind up agreeing with the title, but you won’t be sending this book to the rot in the dump!

Preorder now on Amazon!

-Daniel Aegan – 4/23/24

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Humans Are Trash is the first of three books by Daniel Aegan panned to drop this year! My Good Friend Dr. Debaucherous, a villainpunk tale of a young man and his supervillain mentor, is coming this summer. And in the fall, a cosmic horror comedy called Who the Fuck is Rocky Phantasmic?! will debut. Stay tuned to the Aegan Multiverse!