GATE BREACH
Martin J. Lajoie | One author, many names, endless worlds
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| TITLE | STATUS | GENRE |
|---|---|---|
| The Living Archive | 2nd draft | Speculative Non-fiction |
| Evolutionary Coding (follow-up to Living Archive) | Outlining | Speculative Non-fiction |
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Martin J. Lajoie was born in July 1986 in Quebec, Canada, into a bilingual family split down the middle—his mother’s side French, his father’s side English. Raised in a French-speaking environment but influenced by both cultures, he learned to navigate language, conversation, and meaning from different angles. English, meanwhile, opened up a whole new shelf of ideas, voices, and perspectives that hadn’t yet made the jump across the cultural divide.Martin grew up chasing stories across genres, through every medium he could find—from dog-eared paperbacks to pixelated worlds. Anything that delivered a potent and concentrated dose of wonder, danger, or thought-provoking insight. He never really came back from those early journeys. He just started writing his own.His artistic inclinations were shaped in eclectic ways—from French comics and interactive gamebooks to international films and the unfamiliar creativity of Japanese artists. The latter was unlike anything he’d experienced before and left the deepest imprint on how he approaches tropes, stakes, style, and heart.Over the years, fantasy and science fiction became his main writing focus, though he still dips into other genres when the right idea comes knocking. He’s not concerned with fitting into a lane—if a story is emotionally sharp, philosophically off-kilter, or just plain fun, he’s in.Put off by the gatekeepers and status quo of traditional publishing—and determined to stay true to his own voice—Martin launched Gatebreach, an indie imprint for stories that break the mold and don’t ask or wait for permission. His long-term goal is simple: write across as many genres as possible, connect with the right readers, and build a body of work that doesn’t play by the usual rules.If not in writing mode, furiously typing away, Martin can usually be found pacing in deep thought to neurofunk and dark synthwave music, fleshing out whatever wild concept crash-landed in his brain—be it a magic system based on ritualized theft, a cozy romance, a tale of a cursed city slowly consuming its own history, a science essay, or a framework for a fictional universe to rival Sanderson’s Cosmere. And that’s just Monday.
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What if life doesn’t just evolve—but remembers?The Living Archive reimagines life as a biological information system—where genes, cells, ecosystems, and even extinction events behave like layers of memory, repair, and code. Bridging hard science with visionary speculation, this book explores how DNA might record experience, how life may recycle data across time, and what role humanity plays as the archive’s emerging curators.From the double helix to directed panspermia, this is not just a book about biology—it’s a new lens on life itself.
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This is where it all begins. The Living Archive isn’t just my first nonfiction book — it’s also the first title released under the GateBreach imprint.Sparked by a fascination with biology, memory, and the meaning of life and our place in the universe, this project began with a single question: What if life itself was an act of archiving?While the main text explores deep scientific ideas and speculative biology, this book also marks a personal turning point—not a move away from my usual fiction storytelling, but a step toward exploring the deeper patterns behind life itself. If you’ve ever felt that DNA carries more than just instructions—that it encodes hints of a grand, unexplored design—then this book was written for you.