Inadvisably Compelled is the pen name of a web-fiction author of science fiction and fantasy, who publishes serially and keeps a deliberately private identity - little about the person behind the name is known.
Writing chapter by chapter on the serial-fiction site Royal Road before collecting the results as books and audiobooks, the author has built a devoted readership across several distinct worlds, citing influences as varied as the game Sunless Sea and the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.
The Blue Core series is a 'dungeon core' LitRPG that deliberately sidesteps the genre's usual violent, domineering tropes for something gentler. The breakout, though, is Paranoid Mage, an urban fantasy in which Callum, a thirty-year-old engineer who has seen ghosts all his life, is forcibly conscripted into a hidden magical society and sets out simply to win back his freedom from its authorities - a hit popular enough to be adapted as a Webtoon. Further series such as the LitRPG Systema Delenda Est and the hard-SF Objects in Motion show the author's range.
Anonymous but hugely productive, Inadvisably Compelled writes inventive, ideas-driven genre fiction that rewards the long-haul serial reader.
