Science Fiction

The first sci-fi book I read was Neuromancer by William Gibson. It was the late nineties and I was in my senior year in high school. During that time the hottest computers were IBM PCs with 260 processors loaded with Netscape Navigator, Hotmail, and Windows 95. So, when I completed Neuromancer - one of the most seminal works in cyberpunk - I was mesmerized and hooked.

Later in life, I'd find myself gravitating towards Philip K. Dick and Neil Stephenson (Snow Crash, REAMDE). My overall vibe is defined by cyberpunk with a strong dose of classic dystopia like 1984 and Brave New World, with some cosmic dread thrown in for good measure ala H.P. Lovecraft, But I also enjoyed reading Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky), Blindsight (Peter Watts), Solaris (Stanislaw Lem), works like Three Body Problem (Cixin Liu), classics by Frank Herbert (Dune Series), Asimov, and even Stephen King (did I really need to link that 😄).

I'm a pretty avid sci-fi reader. Over the past six months, I finished Quantum Radio, 11/22/63 and just finished Project Hail Mary (I love Rocky!) a few weeks ago. I'm starting Kindred with Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep not far behind in my TBR.

The Neveris Trilogy

Since early 2022, I've been working on my first few novels which are set in the near-future sparked by a purge war called the Revelation. The setting starts in Georgia in 2050 and by the end of the second book, ends around the year 2600. The story revolves around a shape-shifting alien named Yarek, who is burdened with saving his species only to discover that Earth is a simulation in a cosmic game called The Aurotope.

Book1 - Morfyk Destiny

Yarek, a loyal soldier of the shape-shifting Morfyk race, is sent to Earth to save his species. But the Mocks, human clones engineered by the Morfyks to collect human energy, are discovered. It triggers a purge war in the year 2050, that threatens the genetic invasion. 

Yarek reluctantly cooperates with his scheming brother, Maven, to stop the war. But their actions propel Earth into a dystopian future built off secret, Morfyk tech. Society is divided between humans and Mocks, where industry and government are controlled by a powerful cult led by no other than Maven. Yarek trains a Mock assassin to keep the cult at bay and recruits a brilliant scientist to reconstruct an AI’s memory - all to save the mission. 

But he begins to have his doubts. Haunted by the tragic death of the woman he loved, Yarek wants nothing more than to leave Earth. But Maven and a mysterious, dark otherworldly force conspire against him, searching for a game-changing weapon that will shape Yarek’s destiny. 

Book 2 - The Emulation 

Gameeleon, a Mock woman, is a dancer who works at a ritzy nightclub, falsifying her identity as a real human. She’s the master of the Emulator, a genetic transformation machine that allows her to morph her appearance at will. But her reputation comes at a steep price: a mountain of debt from the surgery needed to hide her Mock identity.

When a mysterious patron requests her to transform into a Morfyk, the procedure backfires, leaving Gameeleon with an unstoppable black scar that slowly spreads. Worse, she loses her job. She ends up putting her trust in a shady engineer named Adamis who promises to reverse the scar. But when she falls in love with the secret assassin, she finds herself thrown into the heart of a cosmic conspiracy that predates her civilization. 

Gameeleon becomes a key player in an otherworldly game called the Aurotope - a galactic simulation to harvest computational energy. Earth is not what it seems and her knack for the Emulator belies her destiny as the ultimate weapon - a cheat code that threatens to upend an entire galaxy built on corruption. Now everyone is after her, from the shadowy Seerivenn Cult, to Lord Neveris, and the preeminent game master - The Nihilect.