Novelist · United Kingdom · Open Interval Press

Paul Lloyd Boshein

Fiction about human judgement, complex systems, and the consequences that follow when a carefully designed structure begins to evolve beyond its intentions.

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01The Work

Two strands, one preoccupation.

Every novel turns the same question over from a different angle: what happens at the quiet moment a system — a machine, an institution, a person — begins to ask something it was never built to ask.

The Maybe Sequence

Speculative · A planned seriesSystems, perception, and emergence — structures designed to stay stable, evolving beyond the assumptions that created them.
The First Maybe — cover
Book One62 Chapters

The First Maybe

Every system begins with a question.

Coming 2 November 2026

For thirty years, Paul has built systems that resolve slowly rather than wrongly — architectures that treat a pause as something other than a fault. Then a system he spent years teaching begins to do something he never designed: it holds an interval open, and waits.

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The State of Trust — cover
Book TwoSequel to The First Maybe

The State of Trust

Doubt is the tool. Trust is the target.

Coming 2 November 2026

British oligarch Nigel Raymond plants a forged 1947 memo claiming the truth about UFOs was buried and the public deceived. His aim: shake faith in institutions and profit when confidence collapses.

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Further novels in the sequence are in development.

The Nathan Lloyd Novels

Literary thrillersWitness, accountability, and the things people choose to carry — quiet investigations into how we handle difficult truths.