About Eva Holmquist

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Eva Holmquist is a Swedish science fiction and fantasy author based in Jönköping, writing from a distinctly Scandinavian perspective where landscapes, silence, and everyday life often shape the edges of the extraordinary. Her stories are known for immersive, carefully built worlds and a focus on emotionally thoughtful speculative fiction—where big ideas meet small human moments. She writes both shorter, accessible fiction and longer novels in Swedish and English, often blending hopeful, intellectual science fiction with a strong sense of place and character.

Readers describe her work as imaginative and reflective, with a clear joy in storytelling and an eye for the strange within the familiar. Her fiction often explores how people navigate change, meaning, and identity in worlds where reality is slightly shifted—sometimes subtly, sometimes radically—yet always grounded in emotional truth.

Alongside her writing, Eva works as a senior IT professional specializing in software testing, quality assurance, and process improvement, with more than three decades of experience across system development, leadership, and education. That analytical background often finds its way into her fiction in the form of structured worldbuilding and systems thinking hidden beneath the surface of her stories.

The following English stories are available:

  • Descansar Universe Collections
    • Space Lives
    • Space Struggles (To Be Released)
  • Descansar Universe Short Stories
    • Arson
    • Date in a Spaceship
    • A Bottle of Wine
    • The Story of Descansar
    • Whispers
    • Lost Friends Lost Loves
    • Discarded
    • Being Killian
    • The Spirit of Orienteering
    • Birthday Surprise
    • Trapped Angel
    • Late for the Gig
    • Following Aria
    • A Monkey Wrench in the Machinery
    • Orienteering Meet
  • A New Era
    • The Protected Heart (novella)
    • Farewell Gift (novella)
    • In The Stone Desert
    • A Pristine World
  • Life of Androids
    • Another Day
    • Playdate
  • Swedish Urban Fantasy
    • A Coffin To Go
  • Other Short Stories
    • Keep Fighting
    • Good Morning Victorious

“I want to read EVERYTHING by Eva Holmquist, enjoy the language, the unique environments, the odd characters and the endless imagination that changes with each new book.” Kim Kimselius Swedish Fantasy Author.

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