O’Keefe: Collected Works
Summary: Megan O’Keefe’s fiction works through extinction, body-printing, and interstellar war to ask what identity means when the body is temporary, what loyalty means when survival is the only currency, and what an ending looks like on a civilizational scale.
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Last updated: 2026-05-07
Through-line
O’Keefe’s recurring concern is the relationship between biological continuity and identity. In a universe where bodies can be printed and replaced, risk calculation changes — and so do the social behaviors built on biological vulnerability.
Blighted Stars / Bound Worlds (The Devoured Worlds)
Dying worlds as resource-extraction sites. The “shroud” renders planets uninhabitable; survival behavior strips away social convention. In Bound Worlds, body-printing makes mortality provisional — which changes how people fight, how they form loyalty, and how they calculate risk. War across light-years is a game played in slow motion, where moves are made generations apart. See okeefe-blighted-stars and okeefe-bound-worlds.
The Protectorate trilogy
Catalyst Gate and First Omega — the Gate as a rupture in causality, demanding a price for passage. In the face of total annihilation, human behavior collapses to two modes: prayer and combat. The Omega point: the end of a lineage becomes the origin of something else. Loyalty persists only as long as the group’s benefit outweighs individual risk. See okeefe-catalyst-gate-protectorate and okeefe-first-omega.