Three events in my life have had a profound effect on the narratives created within my novels. After receiving a chemistry set for my 10th Christmas, I succeeded in causing an explosion, resulting in my extended hospitalization. While in the hospital, I had a near-death experience (NDE). During an amateur telescopic outing with a friend during our teenage years, we experienced a UFO sighting. While doing my doctoral thesis in experimental quantum physics, I began to sense a strong link between elements of quantum physics and consciousness. These events occasionally entered my thinking over the next decades. I developed a passion for writing novels to explore links between quantum physics and consciousness.
My book, a sci-fi adventure-thriller, takes place in 2030-31. The Super Paranormal Intelligence (SPI) Team is mandated by the US President to save humanity from imminent extinction. The team has a unique skill set; they are internationally recognized scientists, each of whom experienced a near-death experience, resulting in what some would call super paranormal capabilities.
Through their mastery of quantum physics and altered states of consciousness, they connect with a civilization on an exoplanet 101.4 lightyears from Earth and 4.7 billion years beyond humanity in technology and socio-cultural behavior and standards. The SPI Team seeks their help to save life on Earth from extinction. Altered states of consciousness, quantum physics, and artificial intelligence (AI) play critical roles in this adventure and lead to a most unexpected outcome.
I love this book because of its excellent job of tackling the nature of free will and consciousness and their impact on the human condition.
In 2009, particle physicist Lloyd Simcoe designed a high-energy experiment for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), designed to detect the Higgs Boson. Success would bring him the Nobel Prize. During the experiment, all those present lost consciousness for two minutes and seventeen seconds.
As it happens, the loss of consciousness is global. Without warning, seven billion people on Earth black out for those two minutes and seventeen seconds. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases, and cars plow into each other. People experience a glimpse of their life twenty-one years and six months in the future. Some see only darkness, death? The interlocking mosaic of these visions threatens the present and the future.
This book pursues profound questions. Do we have free will? What would we change if we knew our future? What ripple effects would our actions have throughout the world?
Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions die. And when everyone comes round they have had a glimpse of their life in the future.
When it awakes the world must live with the knowledge of what is to come.
Some saw themselves in new relationships, some saw exciting new technologies, some saw the stuff of nightmares. Some, young and old alike, saw nothing at all ...
A desperate search to find out what has happened begins. Does the mosaic of visions offer a clue?
This book is a beautifully written novel, using science fiction to tackle the nature of morality, faith, theology, human values, and why terrible things can happen to good people. It challenges the nature of good and evil and what happens when a person tries to do the right thing for the right reasons and ends up causing incalculable harm.
It also addresses in a realistic way, some of the most important questions in the realm of sci-fi. What happens when humanity comes face-to-face with an extraterrestrial civilization? How does humanity relate, if at all, to a civilization in another world in our galaxy? What might be the benefits, but more importantly, what are the challenges, and the dangers?
The science is minimal, but the novel arguably provides the best analysis of human values, in fact, the very nature of humanity itself. A must-read!
'A stunning work of historical imagination . . . masterful in its portrayal of love, sex and friendship' - The Observer 'Utterly engrossing, vivid and honest' - Emma Donoghue, author of Room
Meet Sparrow, a boy slave in the city of New Carthage in the twilight years of pagan Rome.
Raised in a brothel on the margins of a great empire, a boy of no known origin creates his own identity. He is Sparrow, who sings without reason and can fly from trouble. His world is a kitchen, a herb-scented garden, a loud and dangerous tavern, and the mysterious upstairs…
An amazing story from the author of The Martian! It calls on more accurate chemistry, physics, and engineering than any sci-fi book I’ve read. And it subtly and humorously deals with human empathy and friendship in the most unlikely place.
Ryland Grace is the soul survivor in a spaceship sent to save humanity from a catastrophic ice age that will be caused by a strange light increasing in intensity between our sun and Venus. Ryland is a molecular biologist and a successful middle-school science teacher. He is a passionate science polymath, chosen for a mission to a location near the star Tau Ceti, the source of the strange light.
Hundreds of lightyears from Earth, Ryland awakes from an induced space-flight coma to find all of his crew dead. He must use his wits and scientific knowledge to deal with potentially catastrophic issues on his way to Tau Ceti. With time running out and the nearest human being light-years away, Ryland is on his own. Or is he?
It's a super read, as good or better than The Martian.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through…
This book is an imaginative, complex, and engaging sci-fi novel that blends real science and history into a riveting story.
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction receives the signal and plans to invade Earth. Their strategy to engage Earth is incredible.
Moral dilemmas arise that resonate beyond nationality and cerebral physics. What would it mean for the human race to come in contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence? What is the worth of humanity? Do we have a future, and if so, what does it look like? Is humanity past the point of redemption?
This is intense sci-fi, full of lengthy, impressive passages of technical exposition about everything from quantum mechanics to artificial intelligence. The concepts of the author are off the charts but backed by sound science. It's a challenging read but well worth the effort.
Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.
1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.
Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable…
Tyson Klein, a quantum physicist at CERN, analyzes data from the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. He discovers a highly intelligent pattern in data broadcast over what he terms a “Quantum Radio.” The data has the potential to answer the deepest questions about human existence and the cosmos itself, a Theory of Everything. Because the data accurately describes history and alternate histories and projects their future outcome, he first questions whether it’s from another universe or from the future.
As he closes in on how to control the quantum radio, he finds that someone else is after it and will stop at nothing to get it. The first one to uncover its operation will control the world and probably more.
Riddle seamlessly weaves grandiose ideas in science, psychology, history, and time travel throughout the fabric of the personal relationships of several individuals who “coincidentally” enter Tyson’s life to help in his pursuit to master the radio. This sci-fi thriller provides entertainment and an incisive perspective on human values. Highly recommended.
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LOST IN TIME
At CERN, a scientist has just made an incredible discovery - a breakthrough that may answer the deepest questions about human existence.
But what he's found is far more dangerous than he ever imagined.
Dr. Tyson Klein is a quantum physicist who has dedicated his entire life to his research. At CERN, he analyses data generated by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. Now, Ty believes he's found a pattern in its output. It looks like an organised data stream, being broadcast over what…
I’m an avid reader of queer literary fiction not only because I write it but because I’m looking to see my life experience captured on the page. As a gay man, a father of two young boys, and one-half of an interracial married couple, I know the complexity of modern queer living firsthand. In recent years, I’ve been astounded by the breadth of great LGBTQ+ books that examine queerness fully and empathetically. I seek out these books, I read them feverishly, and I become a champion for the best ones. In an era of intense book banning, it’s so important to me to elevate these books and their authors.
The Birthright of Sons is a collection of stories centered around the experiences of marginalized people, namely Black and LGBTQ+ men. Although the stories borrow elements from various genres (horror, suspense, romance, magical realism, etc.), they are linked by an exploration of identity and the ways personhood is shaped through interactions with the people, places, and belief systems around us.
In each of these stories, the protagonists grapple with their understanding of who they are, who and how they love, and what is ultimately most important to them. In almost every case, however, the quest to know or protect oneself is challenged by an external force, resulting in violence, crisis, or confusion, among other outcomes.
The Birthright of Sons is a collection of stories centered around the experiences of marginalized people, namely Black and LGBTQ+ men. Though the stories borrow elements from various genres (horror, suspense, romance, magical realism, etc.), they're linked by an exploration of identity and the ways personhood is shaped through interactions with the people, places, and belief systems around us.
Underpinning the project is a core belief - self-definition is fluid, but conflict arises because society often fails to keep pace with personal evolution. In each of these stories, the protagonists grapple with their understanding of who they are, who and…
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